70 Rockhill Road is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 August 1997. House.
70 Rockhill Road
- WRENN ID
- fading-tallow-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1997
- Type
- House
- Address
- 70 Rockhill Road, Pontymoile, Pontypool, NP4 8AN
- OS grid reference
- SO 289 004
- Coordinates
- 51.6981, -3.02896
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Nos. 64-72 (even) Rockhill Road is a terrace of houses that step down the hill in pairs, with the first possibly including earlier work from the service wing of the 18th century Old Truck House. The terrace features two reflected pairs, and the single house at the end was truncated by the widening of Fountain Road, which used to be a tramway leading from the Pontymoile Tinplate Works to Lower Mill. The houses are rendered and mostly painted, likely over brick, with Welsh slate roofs, although several roofs have been replaced with artificial materials.
Each house is three storeys high and consists of a single bay. The ground floors feature a window with a keyed head and an arched doorway that includes a keystone and impost blocks. The upper floors have windows set within tall arched recesses. Most of the features are modern replacements; for instance, No. 64 has six over six sash windows, while No. 72 appears to have two over two Victorian plate glass sashes. The roofs are plain, and there are two brick stacks serving the entire terrace.
The rear elevations are mostly unpainted render, except for No. 64, which is painted and has modern replacement windows. Nos. 68 and 70 have modern red brick single-storey extensions. This house also has a modern red brick single-storey extension. The interiors were not inspected during the resurvey in December 1996.
Local climate
70 Rockhill Road receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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