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
11344
Building Number
8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/1987
Date of Amendment
26/02/1987
Name of Property
Former Preswylfa Childrens Home
Address
8 Merthyr Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Bridgend
Town
Locality
Bridgend
Easting
290121
Northing
178745
Street Side
Location
On the SW side of a planned square.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built 1880, part of the Bridgend and Cowbridge union. Arts and Crafts.
Exterior
Single-unit asymmetrical 2-storey 2-window bull-nosed rubble front with plinth and freestone window dressings. Steep tiled roof swept low to centre with overhanging eaves, ridge cresting and finials, rubble chimney stacks. Advanced to right with half hipped cross roof; 1st floor window to left rises through eaves with gabled dormer roof; blocked up paired windows. Half-hipped left end with outside stairs, gabled upper window to right side. Rear elevation similar to the front. Modern school building to the right is not of special interest.
In poor condition at time of inspection (April 1986).
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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