Ebbw Vale Adult Education Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Blaenau Gwent local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 October 1999. Adult education centre.

Ebbw Vale Adult Education Centre

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Blaenau Gwent
Constituency
Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney MP: Nick Smith (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 October 1999
Type
Adult education centre
OS grid reference
SO 167 090
Coordinates
51.77353, -3.20778
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Ebbw Vale Adult Education Centre is a two-storey building constructed from rubble with slate roofs. Although the chimneys have been removed, illustrations indicate that it originally featured shafted flues set on broad plinths. The building has a very long facade consisting of eleven bays, with the central five bays projecting higher than the rest. Each side of the narrow entrance bay has decorative bargeboards on the wide gables. The windows have stone voussoired cambered heads, but all the glazing has been replaced with plastic. The floor levels of the southern three bays are slightly lower, suggesting they were added later. There are small attic windows in the gables, with the left one blocked. The central entrance features a round-arched door with a radiating fanlight. The left elevation, which includes a rear wing, is rendered. The rear hall runs parallel to the central bays and has a slightly higher ridge-line with tall full-height windows. Between the fourth and fifth bays on the right side, there is a reset small cast-iron drinking fountain dated 1886, featuring a projecting semi-circular fluted pedestal with a spout below a decorative terminal.

Inside, there is little original detail remaining. The rear lecture hall has a flat boarded ceiling divided into panels by heavy moulded ribs.

Local climate

Ebbw Vale Adult Education Centre sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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