Pay Office is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 February 1995. Office.

Pay Office

WRENN ID
ruined-quartz-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Constituency
Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 February 1995
Type
Office
Address
Pay Office, Blaenafon Ironworks, Blaenavon
OS grid reference
SO 249 092
Coordinates
51.77643, -3.08932
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Pay Office is a single-storey, rectangular stone building dating from the 19th century. It features three bays and is constructed from rock-faced, snecked stone with a chamfered plinth. On the north-west elevation, there are two double doors flanking a large, central, blocked window that has a stone sill. All openings are adorned with stone voussoirs. The hipped roof is covered in slate and has a tiled ridge.

Local climate

Pay Office 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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