Former Risca Palace Cinema is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 October 1999. Cinema.
Former Risca Palace Cinema
- WRENN ID
- still-sill-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1999
- Type
- Cinema
- OS grid reference
- ST 238 903
- Coordinates
- 51.6064, -3.10029
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former Risca Palace Cinema is a building that features a rectangular entrance block in front of a pitched-roof auditorium. The front is rendered, rusticated, and painted in contrasting shades. It has two storeys and three bays, with the center bay slightly recessed. The wide elliptical arched entrance is highlighted by prominent voussoirs, and this arch design is mirrored in the segmental arched central bay of the modillion cornice. Above the entrance, the words "RISCA PALACE" are displayed in relief, topped by a later sign, and below this is an oculus with a deep keystone and decorative swags.
On either side of the entrance, the first-floor windows are now blocked and feature moulded surrounds and deep aprons. The ground floor has paired cambered-arched openings with keyblocks and sills. The rustication continues around the side elevations, and to the right, there is a balustrade with an end pier that extends at first-floor level above a former shopfront.
The building was used as a bingo hall but is now disused, with reports indicating that the seating has been removed.
Local climate
Former Risca Palace Cinema sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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