Gas Holder at British Gas Grangetown Works is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 August 1992. Gas holder.
Gas Holder at British Gas Grangetown Works
- WRENN ID
- secret-bonework-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1992
- Type
- Gas holder
- OS grid reference
- ST 174 743
- Coordinates
- 51.4618, -3.19024
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Gas Holder at British Gas Grangetown Works is a Grade II listed structure featuring a shallow domed crown. At its circumference, there are brackets with wheels that run on vertical rails, which are attached to a supporting framework. This framework consists of two tiers, each made up of 16 cast-iron Doric columns. These columns support panelled entablature blocks with cornices, designed in the style of 15th-century Florentine architecture. The columns in the upper tier are slightly slimmer than those in the lower tier, and they support lighter, narrower entablature blocks. Additionally, there are lattice girders between the columns at the entablature level of both tiers, along with x-shaped cross-bracing between the columns on both levels.
Local climate
Gas Holder at British Gas Grangetown Works sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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