Power House at Mount Stuart Graving Docks is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 August 1992. Industrial building.
Power House at Mount Stuart Graving Docks
- WRENN ID
- over-storey-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1992
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Power House at Mount Stuart Graving Docks, Inner Harbour Area, Butetown
- OS grid reference
- ST 190 742
- Coordinates
- 51.46136, -3.16726
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Power House at Mount Stuart Graving Docks is a single-storey building with a tower, constructed in red brick and topped with slate roofs that feature longitudinal ventilators. The walls are supported by shallow brick buttresses at the corners and have corbelled eaves courses.
The structure consists of two blocks: the broader and taller northwest block has four bays of round-headed arches on each side, which are now blocked. The northwest gable end features a small round window near the apex, with four round-narrow-headed windows below it, also blocked and with some rebuilding evident at the western corner. The narrower and lower southwest block mirrors this design with four bays of round-headed arches on each side, but these are offset to align with the northeast elevation of the larger block. The southeast gable end of this block also has a small round window near the apex.
Between the two blocks, on the northeast elevation, there is a square-headed doorway with a concrete lintel and a sliding wooden door. In the angle between the blocks stands a square tower with a parapet and a blocking course; on the southwest side, there is a tall round-headed window with metal glazing above a round-headed doorway. Inside the tower, there is a riveted metal vertical cylinder.
Local climate
Power House at Mount Stuart Graving Docks 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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