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
11475
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
13/01/1988  
Date of Amendment
 
Name of Property
St Tydfil's Hospital: Entrance Block (Centre Part Only)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil  
Community
Town  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
305111  
Northing
206368  
Street Side
 
Location
Set to rear of railed forecourt with drive leading diagonally to plain opening in right-hand range. Union Place approaches on left.  

Description


Broad Class
Health and Welfare  
Period
 

History
Dated 1870. Originally built as part of the Merthyr Union Workhouse (first built 1853).  

Exterior
Decorated Gothic style. 2-storey gabled range coming forward, snecked rubble facings, freestone dressings, slate roof with ventilator. Kneelered parapet to gable with finial and date-panel. Large 4-light traceried window with ogee quatrefoils, cusping, crenellated transom etc under segmented head; dripmould with headstops. Upper floor corbelled out with freestone dressing linked to bold 3-light ground floor window with rectangular dripmould, foliage stops and carved spandrels. Right return front with 2-light window over 3-light, details as before. Left return with similar upper window over gabled porch forward from 2-storey Tudor-style block (facing Union Place); gabled wing with apex chimney forward on outer left. Slate roofs, sash windows in chamfered reveals, pointed doorway under Gothic fanlight. Rear elevation similar with 2-window gabled cross-range, traceried 2-light windows as before. Attached S range not included.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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