Merthyr Christian Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 October 1978. Control tower.
Merthyr Christian Centre
- WRENN ID
- turning-marble-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1978
- Type
- Control tower
- Address
- Merthyr Christian Centre, Thomastown, Town
- OS grid reference
- SO 051 062
- Coordinates
- 51.74688, -3.37462
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Merthyr Christian Centre is a building featuring snecked rubble facings complemented by ashlar bands and dressings, topped with slate roofs that have red tiled ridges and finials. The structure is crowned by a gable adorned with polygonal finials and narrow louvred openings. It includes a prominent 5-light window with lancets and blocked lights situated above a three-storey transverse extension. The narrow entrance gable showcases a plate-traceried window beneath scissor-braced bargeboards, flanked by two two-storey polygonal staircase turrets topped with conical roofs supported by eaves brackets, and narrow windows featuring stone lintels. A double flight of steps, flanked by stone piers and an iron balustrade (partly missing), leads up to the gabled doorway, which is highlighted by a dripstone.
Local climate
Merthyr Christian Centre 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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