Flooks is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1988. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.

Flooks

WRENN ID
final-threshold-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Constituency
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
13 January 1988
Type
Commercial
Address
Flooks, 49/50 High Street, Pontmorlais, Town, CF47 8UN
OS grid reference
SO 050 066
Coordinates
51.75011, -3.37663
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Flooks is a two-storey building featuring a four-plus-three window arrangement, constructed of stucco with a slate roof that is splayed around the corner. On the right side, there are twin dormers with bargeboards, and a central brick chimney stack. The building has heavily moulded architraves with lion-mask keyblocks surrounding the sash windows. The shopfront is splayed and includes a boxed-in fascia, end volute brackets, and a recessed door with Victorian curved glazing, topped with an ornamented overdoor. The right gable has been modernized with brick.

Local climate

Flooks sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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