2 Vicar's Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 August 1997. House.

2 Vicar's Cottages

WRENN ID
shifting-lancet-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Constituency
Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 August 1997
Type
House
Address
2 Vicar's Cottages, Pontymoile, Pontypool
OS grid reference
SO 289 001
Coordinates
51.69516, -3.02875
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

2 Vicar's Cottages is part of a group of three almshouses located on Maesderwen Road, built in a symmetrical terrace style that reflects minimal Tudor Revival architecture. Constructed from golden/brown squared coursed limestone, the cottages feature an artificial slate roof and stand two storeys tall. The front facade has four windows arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern, with the outer bays set forward in gabled wings, creating the appearance of a 17th-century hall-and-crosswings house. The windows are small paned cross-framed casements, with three lights on the lower level and two on the upper, each topped with dripmoulds. A central gabled porch leads to the front door, and the plain roofs are complemented by two four-flued stacks with octagonal shafts and clay pots. The central portion of the terrace is No.2, while Nos.1 and 3 have two bay fronts with gables and their own gabled porches, facing south towards the main front. The rear elevation has not been seen, and the interiors were not inspected during the resurvey in November 1996.

Local climate

2 Vicar's Cottages 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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