Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18844
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/08/1997
Date of Amendment
28/08/1997
Name of Property
Pontypool Register Office
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Torfaen
Community
Pontymoile
Town
Pontypool
Locality
Pontypool
Easting
328293
Northing
200725
Street Side
SW
Location
In Pontypool town centre in a row of listed buildings fronting the Italian Gardens.
Description
Broad Class
Civil
Period
History
An early C20 office building probably dating from about 1920 and very closely contemporary with St James's Vicarage of 1923 next door. Probably designed by the same architect.
Exterior
Built of squared limestone rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, probably Bath stone; Welsh slate roof. Two storeys set on a plinth and with a high roof. Simple domestic style. Three bay building with central entrance flanked by projecting canted bays carried up to gables. Three panel double doors in quoined frame and with an overlight divided into narrow panes. To the left of this is a small oval lobby window. Above the door is a stone balcony with large turned balusters and a central block; behind this are glazed French doors with overlight. Flanking the central feature are canted 2-storey ashlar bays with four 6 over 6 sashes to each floor. Gables with applied boarding and plain bargeboards above. Tall hipped roof with tall stack with weathering. Side and rear elevations have plain 6 over 6 sash windows.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey November 1996.
Reason for designation
Included as part of an especially good group of C19 and early C20 urban buildings on this side of Hanbury Road.
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