115 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2013. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
115 High Street
- WRENN ID
- peeling-wicket-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2013
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 115 High Street, Town, CF47 8AP
- OS grid reference
- SO 049 062
- Coordinates
- 51.74671, -3.37828
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
115 High Street is a commercial building designed in a flamboyant northern renaissance style, dating from the late 19th century. It stands four storeys tall and features a narrow single bay made of decorative glazed faience, topped with a gabled slate roof that is set back behind a parapet. The building has metal windows in their original openings.
Notable architectural features include a canted oriel window on the first and second floors, which consists of a paired central light flanked by single windows on each side. The first-floor windows are particularly ornate, featuring transoms, arched upper lights, decorated spandrels, and enriched mullions, along with a lozenge-panelled apron. These windows are flanked by full-height pilasters, and the sills, cornice, and transoms create a series of decorative bands. The oriel window is topped with a decorative frieze and cornice.
The upper floor is simpler, with a 2-light transomed window that has arched upper lights and a frieze. The parapet includes decorative panels on the sides and a central Dutch gable adorned with consoles, a tympanum, and a globe finial. Erect lions holding shields are positioned on each side of the gable. The ground floor features a modern shop front.
The interior has not been inspected but may still contain original plan forms and constructional or decorative features that contribute to the building's special interest.
Local climate
115 High Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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