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
11420
Building Number
27
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/01/1988
Date of Amendment
13/01/1988
Name of Property
27 Cyfartha Road
Address
27 Cyfartha Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Park
Town
Locality
Williamstown
Easting
304230
Northing
206939
Street Side
Location
Stepped terrace of industrial housing set into hillside below Brecon Road; facing SW over River Taff towards site of former Cyfarthfa Ironworks.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built between 1836 and 1851.
Exterior
2-storey rubble fronts, right hand house and middle three rendered. Slate roofs (No 24 modern pantiles), brick stacks (some rendered). Two windows per house, original cambered openings with plain raised surrounds to Nos 23, 24 and three left-hand houses. Sash windows remain to No 23 and left-hand group only, small-pane glazing to No 28. Wide later margins to openings of rendered houses. Central doorways, mostly altered.
Interior
Interiors planned with turning stone stairs flanking chimney-breast in thick party walls.
Reason for designation
The longest industrial terrace now remaining in largely unaltered condition in the communities of Merthyr and Park. (Nos 11 to 21 Williamstown adjoin at angle to S).
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