Generating House and attached workshops to north-west of Ruperra Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 October 1997. Generating house. 1 related planning application.

Generating House and attached workshops to north-west of Ruperra Castle

WRENN ID
north-gargoyle-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Constituency
Caerphilly MP: Chris Evans (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 October 1997
Type
Generating house
Address
Generating House and attached workshops to north-west of Ruperra Castle, Rudry
OS grid reference
ST 219 864
Coordinates
51.57122, -3.12805
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building is an L-plan single-storey structure located to the northwest of Ruperra Castle. It features a roughcast exterior and a hipped slate roof, similar to other buildings on the estate. The windows are small-pane casements with cambered heads, and there is a broad gabled louvre. The attached workshops, which housed generators and other machinery, have now been cleared of their equipment.

Local climate

Generating House and attached workshops to north-west of Ruperra Castle 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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