Jubilee Building is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 August 1997. Office.
Jubilee Building
- WRENN ID
- unlit-belfry-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1997
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Jubilee Building, Pontypool, Pontymoile
- OS grid reference
- SO 280 009
- Coordinates
- 51.70238, -3.04187
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Jubilee Building is a late Victorian office structure featuring shops on the ground floor. It is constructed from coursed squared rock-faced limestone rubble with freestone dressings and topped with a Welsh slate roof. This three-storey building has a three-bay front designed in a distinctive Gothic style.
The ground floor includes a central entrance that leads to shops on either side and continues through to the Market behind. The entrance has a slightly pointed arch and is flanked by colonnettes with stiff-leaf capitals. On either side of the entrance are shop windows featuring three-light designs with small-paned heads set in three-centred arches.
The facade showcases a decorative eight-sided corner turret that rises through all three storeys on the left side. On the first floor, there is a paired window with a stone mullion, flanked by single light windows that surround the inscription "JUBILEE BUILDING 1897." A pilaster extends between the single and double windows through the upper two storeys, and above the first-floor windows is a stone band of small paired lights. The second floor features paired windows on either side of a large five-light mullion and transom window, with five additional small lights above that rise into a gable with a small central vent. The turret on the left has a four-light window on both floors and is topped with a lead cupola.
The side elevation is relatively plain, with only a pointed arch window on the first floor and a ridge stack above. The rear elevation is made of dark stone rubble and includes two paired windows on both the first and second floors.
At the time of the resurvey, only the ground floor was inspected, which appeared largely unaltered, with shops flanking a central passage leading to the market.
Local climate
Jubilee Building 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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