Newbridge Chainworks Canal Basin on the Glamorganshire Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 February 2001. Canal basin.
Newbridge Chainworks Canal Basin on the Glamorganshire Canal
- WRENN ID
- low-beam-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Pontypridd MP: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 February 2001
- Type
- Canal basin
- Address
- Newbridge Chainworks Canal Basin on the Glamorganshire Canal, Pentrebach, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff
- OS grid reference
- ST 079 901
- Coordinates
- 51.60227, -3.33074
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Newbridge Chainworks Canal Basin, located on the Glamorganshire Canal, features walls made of snecked rubble and flat dressed copings, oriented roughly north to south. The basin opens out on both sides. On the west side, the towpath gradually descends from north to south. The southern end has later concrete slab copings, and the towpath is also laid with later concrete. Near the northern end, there is an outflow culvert with a dressed stone surround, just south of which is a butt joint that marks the widening of the original canal to form the basin. On the east side, the wall is only visible in the northern half of the basin, as a later retaining wall has been built over the rest. The east wall shows evidence of two phases of construction, with an earlier coping course visible below the current coping level.
Local climate
Newbridge Chainworks Canal Basin on the Glamorganshire Canal 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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