1 Forge Row is a Grade II* listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 May 1973. Industrial housing.

1 Forge Row

WRENN ID
gentle-cupola-spring
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Constituency
Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 May 1973
Type
Industrial housing
Address
1 Forge Row, Cwmavon, Pontypool, Abersychan, NP4 8UU
OS grid reference
SO 270 065
Coordinates
51.75296, -3.05833
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Nos. 1-6 Forge Row is a terrace of industrial housing located on a hillside above the road. The houses feature colour-washed stone rubble external walls with a plinth and small eaves courses, topped with a gabled roof made of random stone slates arranged in diminishing courses. They are two storeys high with a single depth plan. Originally, each house had one window bay and one doorway on the western elevation, but now they each have two windows and two doors. The windows are small paned casements with 2-lights; the upper windows have flat heads at eaves level, while the lower windows and doorways have cambered heads. Stone stacks are present on the roofs.

The interiors were not inspected during the last survey in January 1997, but it is reported that originally, each floor contained two very small rooms with internal walls likely framed in timber. The floors were stone flagged, and the ground floor ceiling joists were made of thin soft wood with small chamfers. Staircases were positioned against the front walls, and there were back doors. The cottages were doubled in size during renovations in 1987-1988, and the interiors now primarily reflect that period, although the staircases are said to have survived from the original design.

Local climate

1 Forge Row sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% 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 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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