Cynon Valley main Store Building (formerly the Casting House at Gadly's Ironworks is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 April 1989. Industrial building.
Cynon Valley main Store Building (formerly the Casting House at Gadly's Ironworks
- WRENN ID
- western-gravel-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1989
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Cynon Valley main Store Building (formerly the Casting House at Gadly's Ironworks, Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff
- OS grid reference
- SO 000 030
- Coordinates
- 51.71681, -3.44845
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Cynon Valley main Store Building, formerly known as the Casting House at Gadly's Ironworks, features twin gabled ranges oriented with a long side facing the furnace bank. The exterior is constructed from dark rubble with red and yellow brick dressings, and there is yellow brick patching on the upper gable ends and under the eaves, possibly indicating past re-roofing. The building has pitched slate roofs, boarded eaves, and plain bargeboards. The gable ends include brick-dressed oculi that are blocked, along with twin brick-dressed arched openings, three of which have traceried fanlights on the southeast end. A small, later addition is present on the northwest gable end, which retains one traceried fanlight.
The long flank of the building has seven bays with arched small-pane window frames set into brick-faced arched recesses that were formerly open. Bolted plates are visible on the spandrels.
Inside, the building features twin boarded roofs supported by metal-rod trusses, and there is a central arched arcade made of stonework with brick dressings. Brackets on the spandrels of the windows may have previously supported rails for travelling cranes.
Local climate
Cynon Valley main Store Building (formerly the Casting House at Gadly's Ironworks sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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