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
11342
Building Number
4&5
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/1987
Date of Amendment
26/02/1987
Name of Property
Former Preswylfa Childrens Home
Address
4&5 Merthyr Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Bridgend
Town
Locality
Bridgend
Easting
290158
Northing
178716
Street Side
Location
To SW of No 3 near the southern corner of a planned square.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built 1902, part of the Bridgend and Cowbridge union.
Exterior
Twin-unit, symmetrically stepped, 2-storey, 6-window bull-nosed rubble front with low buttresses, plinth and freestone dressings. Tall tiled roofs, lower to ends, with overhanging eaves, ridge cresting and finials, rubble chimney stacks and central dividing parapet. Hipped and gabled cross roofs, advanced to penultimate bays, with lean-to porches to outer return walls. Mainly paired sash windows.
Half-hipped end walls, similar detail at rear with 2-single storey extensions.
In poor condition at the time of inspection (April 1986).
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
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