Cartshed at Plas Machen is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 August 2003. Cartshed. 1 related planning application.
Cartshed at Plas Machen
- WRENN ID
- knotted-brass-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 August 2003
- Type
- Cartshed
- Address
- Cartshed at Plas Machen, Graig
- OS grid reference
- ST 234 876
- Coordinates
- 51.58204, -3.10596
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The cartshed at Plas Machen is a single-storey structure built from purple rubble stone and topped with an asbestos sheet hipped roof. The front features five elliptical-arched cart entries, each arch constructed with tooled cut stone voussoirs and separated by square stone piers. The left arch is slightly wider than the others. Inside, the building retains four oak tie-beam and collar trusses, with the collars bolted.
Local climate
Cartshed at Plas Machen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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