Electrical Workshop is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 February 1995. Workshop.
Electrical Workshop
- WRENN ID
- haunted-column-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1995
- Type
- Workshop
- Address
- Electrical Workshop, Big Pit Mining Museum, Blaenavon
- OS grid reference
- SO 238 087
- Coordinates
- 51.77261, -3.10505
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Electrical Workshop is a long, rectangular building with lightly polychromed brickwork, constructed on a slope in two phases. The two-bay north-west block is slightly taller than the four-bay south-east block. Openings are formed by segmental brick arches, and the windows feature brick sills, although two windows in the north gable are blocked. The pitched slate roofs have tiled ridges with finials at either end of the north-west building, which also includes a chimney on its north-east pitch.
The ground floor is empty, but rows of thick eye-bolts in the ceiling indicate that they were used for winching heavy equipment from trams to work benches. The first floor is currently utilized as an exhibition space, and the roof structure consists of multiple wooden trusses.
Local climate
Electrical Workshop 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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