Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St James's Vicarage
Pontymoile, Torfaen, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 August 1997
- Locality
- Pontypool
- Town
- Pontypool
- Community
- Pontymoile
- Unitary authority
- Torfaen
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70081, -3.03917
- Cadw reference
- 18854
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 opposite the Italian Gardens.
History
A Vicarage for a town centre parish built in 1923. Probably designed by the same architect as the adjoining Registry Office.
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. Subtle inter-war domestic style with some Gothic touches. Four bay house with the entrance in the second bay from the left, and the third bay is set forward with a wide gable over. The windows are single sash, paired sash, canted bay with four sashes and paired sash. All these are 6 over 6 sashes in plain reveals. The entrance bay is slightly Gothicised with the plank door framed together with a 2-light mullioned window with pointed heads to the lights and lattice casements. Tall hipped roof with two tall stone stacks with weathering. Paired sash in each floor to the gable end. Rear elevation similar but very plain.
Interior
Interior not seen 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 HallReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Pontypool Register OfficeCivilunder 1 mi
- St. James's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Mount Pleasant United Reformed ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.