St James's Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 August 1997. Fire station.
St James's Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-beam-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1997
- Type
- Fire station
- Address
- St James's Vicarage, Pontypool, Pontymoile
- OS grid reference
- SO 282 007
- Coordinates
- 51.70081, -3.03918
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
St James's Vicarage is a two-storey house built of squared limestone rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, likely made from Bath stone, and topped with a Welsh slate roof. It features a subtle inter-war domestic style with some Gothic elements. The house has four bays, with the entrance located in the second bay from the left. The third bay is set forward and topped with a wide gable. The windows consist of single sash, paired sash, and a canted bay with four sashes, all of which are 6 over 6 sashes set in plain reveals. The entrance bay has a slightly Gothic appearance, featuring a plank door framed by a 2-light mullioned window with pointed heads and lattice casements. The roof is tall and hipped, with two tall stone stacks that have weathering. There are paired sashes on each floor of the gable end. The rear elevation is similar but much plainer. The interior was not seen during the resurvey in November 1996.
Local climate
St James's Vicarage 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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