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
11468
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/08/1975
Date of Amendment
13/01/1988
Name of Property
District Education Office of Mid-Glamorgan County Council (YMCA)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Park
Town
Locality
Easting
305007
Northing
206590
Street Side
N
Location
Dominant, highly-coloured building on terrace above the road, close to the junction with High Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
1911. First building designed by (Sir) Percy Thomas after he set up in practice with Ivor Jones.
Exterior
4-storey, 7-bay Edwardian Baroque façade with red brick facings and terracotta dressings; slate roofs with chimneys to end parapets. Emphasised and rusticated centre bay with segmental pediment and flanking stacks, 2-storey splayed bay cantilevered over compressed first-floor windows with YMCA panel; arched, keyblocked and cavetto-splayed main entrance with recessed door-screen. Rusticated ends to pilastered outer bays with tripartite top windows, cornices and aprons to second-floor, first-floor with segmental arches. All small-pane glazing. Overall fascias with paired Doric half-columns to glazed outer ground-floor bays. Brick rear range with segmental bow facing W.
Interior
Full-height Imperial staircase within entrance hall, good ironwork handrail with trellised newels.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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