Handball Court is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 June 1988. Fountain.
Handball Court
- WRENN ID
- small-newel-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Caerphilly MP: Chris Evans (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1988
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Handball Court, Nelson
- OS grid reference
- ST 113 956
- Coordinates
- 51.65252, -3.28337
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The handball court is a three-sided structure built from coursed rubble with roughly squared quoins. The sides slope upward from the end piers to a tall end wall, which features added panels of wire mesh. The court has cemented coping and an inner face that includes goal markings. The ground surface is made of tarmac and has court markings.
Local climate
Handball Court sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 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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