Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
18853
Building Number
6  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/08/1997  
Date of Amendment
28/08/1997  
Name of Property
6 Commercial Street  
Address
6 Commercial Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Torfaen  
Community
Pontymoile  
Town
Pontypool  
Locality
Pontypool  
Easting
328145  
Northing
200971  
Street Side
SW  
Location
In Pontypool town centre.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
A formal late Georgian terrace dating from about 1825 which is little altered above the ground floor. One ground floor was replaced by an entry into Pontypool Market in 1894, the others all date from the late C20.  

Exterior
 

Interior
Interior not inspected at the time of resurvey (October 1996).  

Reason for designation
A good quality late Georgian terrace of shops in the main shopping street of Pontypool, which also has important group value with neighbouring listed items.  

Group Description
Nos. 2A, 4 and 6 Commercial Street A formal late Georgian terrace of three storey buildings now all in commercial use, but built originally as shops with accommodation over. Rendered and painted, probably over brick, with Welsh slate roofs, some of which are replaced with artificial slates. 1:6:1 bays with the single bays set slightly forward, the left hand single bay is the inserted entrance to Pontypool Market (qv.) a Tudor style archway in limestone rubble with yellow Ebbw Vale brick dressings which is dated 1894 (see Market description for more details). The rest of the ground floor has two triple bay shops in the centre and a single bay one; all late C20 shopfronts and fascias. Cill band to first floor, which has an arcade of semi-circular arched recesses each containing a six over six sash, impost band, double thickness pier for the end bays. Cill band to second floor which has three over three sashes in plain openings. Frieze, eaves, plain roof.  

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