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 and (i) 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
23857
Building Number
4  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
31/07/2000  
Date of Amendment
 
Name of Property
4 Gelli Houses  
Address
4 Gelli Houses  

Location


Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot  
Community
Glyncorrwg  
Town
 
Locality
Gelli  
Easting
287210  
Northing
196191  
Street Side
E  
Location
Approximately 1.1km E of Cymmer and set back from the A4107.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Erected in 1883 for colliers at nearby pits owned by the Glyncorrwg Coal Mining Company. The single-storey construction is unusual and the Gelli Houses represent one of the latest examples of the type. Of four-room construction with a lean-to pantry at the back, only two of the rooms were originally heated. The houses originally shared a communal bakehouse but this had been demolished by 1904.  

Exterior
1-12 Gelli Houses Two rows of 6 double-fronted houses are placed end-to-end but not quite parallel. The rubble-stone walls are now rendered, the roofs have been renewed and most of the brick stacks survive, some rendered. The windows and doors are replaced, mostly in original openings. Enlarged windows.  

Interior
Not inspected.  

Reason for designation
Listed as a rare surviving row of single-storey colliers' cottages, representing a distinctive plan form used in the early mining cottages on the western side of the South Wales coalfield.  

Group Description
1-12 Gelli Houses Erected in 1883 for colliers at nearby pits owned by the Glyncorrwg Coal Mining Company. The single-storey construction is unusual and the Gelli Houses represent one of the latest examples of the type. Of four-room construction with a lean-to pantry at the back, only two of the rooms were originally heated. The houses originally shared a communal bakehouse but this had been demolished by 1904. Two rows of 6 double-fronted houses are placed end-to-end but not quite parallel. The rubble-stone walls are now rendered, the roofs have been renewed and most of the brick stacks survive, some rendered. The windows and doors are replaced, mostly in original openings.  

Sources
  • Newman, John, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan, 1995, p 140;,
  • Smith, Clive, The Gelli Houses, Journal of the Cymmer and Afan Historical Society, Vol IV, 1981, pp 30-34.,

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