Former Goods Shed of Abersychan and Talywain Station is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1997. Goods shed.

Former Goods Shed of Abersychan and Talywain Station

WRENN ID
rough-entrance-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Constituency
Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 July 1997
Type
Goods shed
Address
Former Goods Shed of Abersychan and Talywain Station, Pontypool
OS grid reference
SO 260 038
Coordinates
51.72806, -3.07241
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former goods shed of Abersychan and Talywain Station is a building constructed from yellow bricks, possibly from Ebbw Vale or Blaendare, featuring red brick window arches and a Welsh slate roof. It is a single cell goods shed with an attached office at the north end. The shed has five bays, which are highlighted by windows and pilasters on the trackside elevation. This elevation includes a plinth and strip pilasters that frame panels, each containing an iron-framed segmental-headed window. On the road side, there are two large double doors with diagonal boarding in segmental heads, along with a window similar to those on the trackside in between. A projecting canopy supported by brackets extends over the loading bays. The roof is plain, with bargeboards and a large ridge light. The south gable features an arched door for through running, which is now blocked. The north gable has a three-bay single-storey office that projects off-centre, containing a single and a paired two-over-two sash window in segmental heads, along with another window and a door on the gable end. The office has a plain roof with a brick stack. A modern extension on the west side obscures the through running doorway into the main shed.

Local climate

Former Goods Shed of Abersychan and Talywain Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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