House, including attached railings is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 May 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
House, including attached railings
- WRENN ID
- heavy-belfry-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- House, including attached railings, 32 Monk Street, Abergavenny
- OS grid reference
- SO 300 142
- Coordinates
- 51.82256, -3.01569
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building is a house that includes attached railings and is listed as Grade II. It is constructed of rendered and painted rubblestone, topped with a natural slate roof and red brick stacks. The design features a double depth central entrance plan, three storeys high with five windows. The central doorway has a wide six-panel door with a fanlight above it, and is sheltered by a flat-canopied porch supported by wrought iron piers with an enriched frieze.
The windows are arranged almost symmetrically in vertical lines, with slightly varying gaps between them. The outer bays of the ground floor have tripartite sashes, featuring six over six panes flanked by two over two panes. The other ground and first floor windows are six over six pane sashes, while the upper floor has three over six pane windows. The building has deep eaves supported by paired brackets, a bell-cast roof that sweeps at the corners, and moderate pitch with gable stacks. There are also attached wrought iron gates and spike railings along the entire front.
On the Lion Street elevation, there is a single-storey lean-to against the gable end of No. 32, which includes a four by four pane window facing Monk Street and a small window under the eaves facing Lion Street. The two-storey section features tripartite sashes on each floor, with six over six panes flanked by four over four panes. This section has a slightly higher roofline that aligns with No. 8 Lion Street. Below is a garage door, with a six over six pane sash above it and a steeply pitched roof.
The rear elevation was not inspected. During the resurvey, only the ground floor was seen. It includes a central hall with a reconstructed staircase, and the plaster cornice is still intact. The room to the left has an introduced fireplace featuring a good iron hob-grate, a carved surround, and marble slips in the Adam style. The building has historically served as a solicitor's office, which has led to various alterations for office and storage purposes.
Local climate
House, including attached railings receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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