2 The Bungalows is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1997. Cottage.

2 The Bungalows

WRENN ID
quartered-loggia-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Constituency
Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 July 1997
Type
Cottage
Address
2 The Bungalows, Balance Road (Off), Varteg, Pontypool, Abersychan
OS grid reference
SO 254 051
Coordinates
51.7403, -3.08141
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

2 The Bungalows is a row of four single-storey cottages built from painted rubble stone and topped with concrete tile roofs that mimic the appearance of stone tiles. Each cottage is double fronted and double depth, featuring paired bathroom extensions that were added in the 20th century. The front of each cottage has eight over eight sash windows set in elliptical heads, flanking a doorway that includes a partially glazed 20th-century door with a small elliptical light above it. There are paired rendered chimney stacks, and No 4 has an additional 20th-century stove stack on the front slope. At the rear, each cottage has two more eight over eight sash windows and a paired gabled bathroom extension. The interiors were not inspected during the resurvey in January 1997.

Local climate

2 The Bungalows sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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