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
11292
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/09/1986  
Date of Amendment
29/09/1986  
Name of Property
Glanogwr (including Glanogwr cottage) (Environmental Health Department)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Bridgend  
Community
Bridgend  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
290131  
Northing
179074  
Street Side
 
Location
On the SW outskirts of the town, reached through a housing estate.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
Late C18 with early C20 additions and alterations; at one time the house of 1st Lord Swansea.  

Exterior
Coursed dressed local stone; 2-bay extension forward to the right. Tall hipped slate roof with bracket eaves. Central 3-bays advanced and pedimented with stone chimney stack. Cambered voussior lintels to 12-pane sash windows and taller sashes without glazing bars to ground right. Central Tuscan porch with bracketed cornice and entablature frieze; double panelled doors and arched fanlight. Pyramidal slate roof to extension; similar detail except sash windows without glazing bars, tripartite to ground floor. Small pane tripartite windows to SE elevation; similar windows to rear with splayed advanced centre. Modern extensions at rear are not of special interest. Rendered right side including Glanogwr Cottage.  

Interior
Interior retains some late C18 detail. Entrance hall reached through segmental arch with broken pedimented inner doorway. Reeded hall doorway architraves and cornices to stair well with niches; winding cantilevered staircase with moulded strings and scroll ended handrail. Hexagonal room to centre rear. Heavily ribbed ceilings to Council Chamber and passage to right of entrance hall.  

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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