Electricity Power House, C Row (NW Side) is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 February 1995. House.

Electricity Power House, C Row (NW Side)

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Constituency
Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 February 1995
Type
House
Address
Electricity Power House, C Row (NW Side), Forge Side, Blaenavon
OS grid reference
SO 242 086
Coordinates
51.77108, -3.09894
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Electricity Power House is a large, single-storey rectangular building constructed of red brick. The main gable facade features three bays, while the return elevation has nine bays. The symmetrical gable is highlighted by a wide central semi-circular arched doorway, flanked by two tall semi-circular arched windows, each with stone sills. Although the iron glazing bars remain, the window openings have been filled in with brick. At the top of the gable wall, there is a blind ocular window with a small diamond-shaped opening at its center. The end pilaster strips extend into stepped decorative verges.

On the return elevation, there are eight identical semi-circular arched windows, all bricked in, with a ninth window blocked and an inserted doorway. Iron tie bars are present between the windows, and there is a brick eaves cornice. The floor level is higher at the west end, and the long walls have brick infill in their arches, into which iron girders have been fixed for an overhead gantry. The roof structure features narrow iron trusses.

Local climate

Electricity Power House, C Row (NW Side) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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