Rhondda Branch Junction Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 July 1990. Signal box.
Rhondda Branch Junction Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- peeling-paling-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Pontypridd MP: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1990
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Rhondda Branch Junction Signal Box, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff
- OS grid reference
- ST 070 900
- Coordinates
- 51.6013, -3.34367
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Rhondda Branch Junction Signal Box is a 2-storey building made of red brick, topped with a slate roof. At the southern end, 2 bays have been reduced to a single storey with a flat roof, while the original structure was 6 bays plus 1 bay long. A name plate on the building reads 'Pontypridd JCSB'. Inside, the signal box once housed 230 levers.
Local climate
Rhondda Branch Junction Signal Box sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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