Woolwich Building Society is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2000. Financial institution. 1 related planning application.
Woolwich Building Society
- WRENN ID
- young-corbel-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 March 2000
- Type
- Financial institution
- Address
- Woolwich Building Society, 22-24 Commercial Street, Stow Hill, NP20 1SN
- OS grid reference
- ST 311 880
- Coordinates
- 51.58686, -2.99527
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Woolwich Building Society is a building designed in the French Renaissance style. It features a steeply pitched slate roof and bathstone elevations, which are adorned with a dentil cornice. The first floor has windows topped with small pediments, while the ground floor is made of pale stone. There are two pedimented dormers facing Commercial Street and a dome located at the corner of the building.
On the Commercial Street side, there are three windows, with a doorway to the left and two additional windows. The design includes a curving corner bay. On the Austin Friars side, there is one window, a blank bay that was formerly a chimney, two more windows, and paired windows in the end bay topped with a pavilion roof. The ground floor features two windows at the corner, four windows along Austin Friars, and a doorway with scrolled brackets supporting a hood.
Local climate
Woolwich Building Society receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- 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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