Electricity Transformer at Park Square is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 April 1981. Thatched house.
Electricity Transformer at Park Square
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-tower-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1981
- Type
- Thatched house
- Address
- Electricity Transformer at Park Square, Stow Hill
- OS grid reference
- ST 310 876
- Coordinates
- 51.58342, -2.99603
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The electricity transformer at Park Square is a notable structure featuring a cast iron cylindrical casing topped with a low conical cap. This cap supports an iron lamp standard, although there is currently no lamp attached. The rim of the cap is adorned with beaded decoration, while the body of the transformer showcases relief decoration beneath the rim. The casing is divided into panels by horizontal ribs, and vertical ribs that hold hinges for access doors.
Local climate
Electricity Transformer at Park Square receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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