17 Broad Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 February 1995. Church. 1 related planning application.
17 Broad Street
- WRENN ID
- sharp-postern-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1995
- Type
- Church
- Address
- 17 Broad Street, Blaenavon, NP4 9ND
- OS grid reference
- SO 252 087
- Coordinates
- 51.77258, -3.08493
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
17 Broad Street is a stone-built terrace of five two-storey shops, designed as a unified facade with projecting and gabled end bays. The frontages are alternately of coursed stone and rendered, with slate roofs, with the exception of No 18 which has an asbestos tiled roof. Brick chimney stacks are present.
No 15, occupied by Watkins and Co Solicitors, forms the left-hand projecting bay. The ground floor features a shop front with a double, panelled doorway and a plain rectangular fanlight offset to the right of a three-light window, divided by wide stone mullions and with a stone sill. Horned sash windows, without glazing bars, are set within a simple wide wooden surround composed of three pilasters on stone bases, topped with a deep bracketed cornice. The lower panes of the windows are frosted and painted with the business name. The first floor has three four-pane horned sash windows with stone sills and dressed stone lintels. Wooden barge-boards are also present.
No 16, occupied by W J Wallaby & Sons, has a rendered frontage and a ground floor shop front with fascia end brackets, a large window, and a recessed door. The doorway is formed by a splayed window on one side and a curved window on the other. There is a tiled area below the windows. 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 a tiled stallriser. Two large windows return to a recessed central door, framed by two smaller splayed windows. The first floor has a single square headed sash window with a dressed stone lintel that has an ashlar effect.
No 18, occupied by Hollywood, has a rendered facade. The asymmetrical ground floor shop front features a large window on one side, and a smaller window splayed back to meet a recessed door. A tiled stallriser is present. The first floor has a sash window.
No 19, occupied by Robinsons Drug Store, forms the right-hand projecting bay. The ground floor has a symmetrical shop front, with a deep fascia and two large windows with decorative glazing bars to the top. The doorway is formed by splayed windows, with a recessed door. A tiled stallriser is also present. The first floor has two sash windows.
Local climate
17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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