Graigwen is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 November 1980. Townhouse.
Graigwen
- WRENN ID
- tenth-mantel-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1980
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- Graigwen, Llangybi, Pontypool, NP15 1PA
- OS grid reference
- ST 372 966
- Coordinates
- 51.66475, -2.90904
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Graigwen is a building that is completely rendered and painted, likely over local rubblestone, and features Welsh slate roofs. The original structure has two storeys, while a wing added to the right gable in 1874 has one storey. The building includes three regular cast iron casement windows with distinctive lattice-pattern glazing, each consisting of four lights. A ledged door, probably inserted in 1874, replaces three lights in the right-hand window. All windows have unmoulded dripstones. The roof has a low pitch with deep eaves and gable stacks, each topped with a single octagonal shaft. The left gable features a smaller window of the same type. The single-storey, gable-fronted wing on the right has one matching window and incised decoration on the gable, covering the gable end of the original building and likely its original entrance door. This wing also has a right-facing gable with a small window and the date 1874, along with a tall brick stack. The rear elevation was not seen.
The interior was not observed during the resurvey, but it likely originally contained a schoolroom on the lower level and accommodation for the teacher above. The light levels may be low, which is unusual for a school unless all the windows were replaced in 1894.
Local climate
Graigwen receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
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