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
11817
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/01/1989
Date of Amendment
05/01/1989
Name of Property
Constitutional Club
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Neath
Town
Locality
Easting
275370
Northing
197535
Street Side
Location
Set back from the street line next to St David’s Church.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
Late C19 gothic.
Exterior
Two storey and attic 5 window front. Patterned brick facings.
Steeply pitched slate roof, hopped to corner. Yellow brick eaves band, machiolated effect. Original decorative ironwork rainwater goods. Four gabled dormers, tile cresting and finials. Deep verges, bargeboards form pointed arches. Modern glazing. Two similar to side elevation.
Recessed panels house first floor windows, machiolated effect to top. Polychrome brickwork, pointed arches and continuous impost band. Two light windows below tropartite cusped lights to tympani with lead cames. Deep, moulded yellow brick sills bands with paterae, string course. Pentagonal bartizan oriel window to right corner; similar detail, spirelet with ironwork finial. Freestone decorated tracery, lead cames, moulded bracket on angular brick shaft with freestone corbel.
Stilted arches to ground floor windows, polychrome arches, continuous impost and sill bands. Sashes, 6 small panes to upper sash, stone sills. Rectangular porch to centre. First floor will band forms parapet bearing lettering CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB. Pointed polychrome 2 order arch with colonettes. Quatrefoils to spandrels bearing crown to left and mitre to right, stilted arches to sash windows on sides. Panelled inner doors.
Similar detail to front on 2 window elevation to right end, but first floor windows paired in single recess.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with Gwyn Hall and St David’s Church.
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