3 Vicar's Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 August 1997. Farm house.
3 Vicar's Cottages
- WRENN ID
- frozen-oriel-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1997
- Type
- Farm house
- Address
- 3 Vicar's Cottages, Pontymoile, Pontypool
- OS grid reference
- SO 289 000
- Coordinates
- 51.6951, -3.02875
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Nos 1-3 Vicar's Cottages on Maesderwen Road are three almshouses designed as a symmetrical terrace in a minimal Tudor Revival style. They are constructed from golden/brown squared coursed limestone and topped with an artificial slate roof. The cottages are two storeys high and feature a four-window front to the road, arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern, with the single 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 below and two above, each topped with dripmoulds. There is a central gabled porch with steps leading to the front door. The roofs are plain, with two four-flued stacks that have octagonal shafts and clay pots. The central portion of the front 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
3 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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