Reception (Fitting Shops) is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 February 1995. Commercial.
Reception (Fitting Shops)
- WRENN ID
- scarred-string-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1995
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Reception (Fitting Shops), Big Pit Mining Museum, Blaenavon
- OS grid reference
- SO 238 088
- Coordinates
- 51.77283, -3.10516
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Reception (Fitting Shops) is a pair of single-storey, rectangular buildings constructed in snecked stone. The west building has four bays and is slightly shorter than the east building, which has five bays. Both buildings feature a plinth running along their base. The main gable of the earlier east building includes a central tramway door, flanked by tall sash windows, with an additional window above. The return elevation to the east has five bays; the fourth bay contains a doorway, while the others have sash windows. These openings are formed with segmental stone arches and stone sills, with a metal ventilation grill below each. The rear gable has a single large window with a segmental arch and brick dressing. The pitched slate roof has a tiled ridge and wooden brackets in the verges.
The later west building is similar in style, with its main gable featuring only one window. The rear gable has a tramway door with brick dressings and a window above. The roof is supported by steel joist trusses. The interior is fitted out as a gift shop.
Local climate
Reception (Fitting Shops) 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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