The Co-operative Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 August 1997. Bank.
The Co-operative Bank
- WRENN ID
- western-newel-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1997
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- The Co-operative Bank, Pontypool, Pontymoile
- OS grid reference
- SO 281 009
- Coordinates
- 51.70296, -3.04131
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Co-operative Bank is a late Regency building, three stories tall and rectangular in shape, with a rendered and painted exterior and a Welsh slate roof. The front facing Commercial Street features three windows on each floor above a mid-20th century bank frontage with a black marble fascia. The first-floor windows are six over six sashes, while the upper floor has three over six sashes, all set in plain recesses. The building has eaves and a hipped roof.
On the Crane Street side, the ground floor continues the bank front, with two large projecting four-light display windows topped with tented lead roofs on the first floor. Above the right-hand display window, there are two three over six sashes. A large chimney stack is visible on the right-hand party wall. The building has group value with the adjoining terrace on Commercial Street and contributes to the townscape as a visual stop looking south along George Street.
The interior of the ground floor dates from around the 1960s and is contemporary with the shopfront.
Local climate
The Co-operative Bank 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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