Chain Store is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 February 1995. Commercial.
Chain Store
- WRENN ID
- late-stair-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1995
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Chain Store, Blaenafon Ironworks, Blaenavon
- OS grid reference
- SO 250 092
- Coordinates
- 51.77708, -3.08833
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Chain Store consists of two adjoining low domed stone structures that are built into the hillside, each following a rectangular plan. The south-west wall of each structure is missing, and the interiors feature barrel vaults. Restoration work was in progress at the time of inspection in 1993.
Local climate
Chain Store 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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