Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pontypool Register Office
Pontymoile, Torfaen, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Civil
- Date of designation
- 28 August 1997
- Locality
- Pontypool
- Town
- Pontypool
- Community
- Pontymoile
- Unitary authority
- Torfaen
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70067, -3.03900
- Cadw reference
- 18844
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
In Pontypool town centre in a row of listed buildings fronting the Italian Gardens.
History
An early C20 office building probably dating from about 1920 and very closely contemporary with St James's Vicarage of 1923 next door. Probably designed by the same architect.
Exterior
Built of squared limestone rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, probably Bath stone; Welsh slate roof. Two storeys set on a plinth and with a high roof. Simple domestic style. Three bay building with central entrance flanked by projecting canted bays carried up to gables. Three panel double doors in quoined frame and with an overlight divided into narrow panes. To the left of this is a small oval lobby window. Above the door is a stone balcony with large turned balusters and a central block; behind this are glazed French doors with overlight. Flanking the central feature are canted 2-storey ashlar bays with four 6 over 6 sashes to each floor. Gables with applied boarding and plain bargeboards above. Tall hipped roof with tall stack with weathering. Side and rear elevations have plain 6 over 6 sash windows.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey November 1996.
Reason for designation
Included as part of an especially good group of C19 and early C20 urban buildings on this side of Hanbury Road.
Nearby in the register
- St James's VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mount Pleasant United Reformed ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St.James's HallReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St. James's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.