16 Broad Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 February 1995. Terrace of shops.
16 Broad Street
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1995
- Type
- Terrace of shops
- Address
- 16 Broad Street, Blaenavon
- OS grid reference
- SO 252 087
- Coordinates
- 51.77254, -3.08496
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
16 Broad Street is a stone-built terrace of five two-storey shops, designed with a cohesive facade featuring advanced and gabled end bays. The frontages alternate between coursed stone and rendered surfaces, topped with slate roofs, except for No 18, which has an asbestos tiled roof. Brick chimney stacks are present.
No 15, occupied by Watkins and Co Solicitors, is the left-hand advanced bay. It has a ground floor shop front with a double, panelled doorway and a plain rectangular fanlight positioned to the right of a three-light window, which is divided by wide stone mullions and features a stone sill. The horned sashes lack glazing bars, and the lower panes are frosted and display the business name. The door and windows are framed by a simple wide wooden surround made up of three pilasters on stone bases, topped with a deep bracketed cornice. The first floor contains three four-pane horned sash windows with stone sills and dressed stone lintels, along with wooden barge-boards.
No 16, home to W J Wallaby & Sons, has a rendered frontage. Its ground floor features a shop front with fascia end brackets, a large window, and a recessed door, which is flanked by a splayed window on one side and a curved window on the other. There is a tiled area below the windows, and the first floor has a horned sash window.
No 17, occupied by P Phillips, has a ground floor shop front with a ramped fascia and tiled stallriser. It features two large windows that lead to a recessed central door via two smaller splayed windows. The first floor has a single square-headed sash window with an ashlar effect tooled lintel.
No 18, known as Hollywood, has a rendered facade and an asymmetrical ground floor shop front with a large window on one side and a smaller window splayed back to meet a recessed door. It also has a tiled stallriser, and the first floor features a sash window.
No 19, which houses Robinsons Drug Store, forms the right-hand advanced bay. Its ground floor has a symmetrical shop front with a deep fascia and two large windows adorned with decorative glazing bars at the top. The doorway is created by two splayed windows leading to a recessed door, and it has a tiled stallriser. The first floor contains two sash windows.
Local climate
16 Broad Street 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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