Generator Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 December 1998. Tower.
Generator Tower
- WRENN ID
- stranded-loggia-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1998
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Generator Tower, Pont-Y-Waun Garden Suburb, Crosskeys
- OS grid reference
- ST 222 927
- Coordinates
- 51.62859, -3.12394
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Generator Tower is a two-storey structure built of coursed rockfaced stone. It features a corbelled and embattled parapet with water spouts. The main front has a splayed segmental arched doorway on the ground floor, which is framed by deep narrow voussoirs, with slightly projecting jambs and quoins. There is a metal overlight above the doorway, although no glazing remains. Above this, there is a flat-arched opening with a sill. The rear of the tower is similar, but the ground floor is obscured by a corrugated lean-to. Wire attachments are present on three sides of the building.
Local climate
Generator Tower 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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