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
11824
Building Number
8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/01/1976
Date of Amendment
05/01/1989
Name of Property
8 Wind Street
Address
8 Wind Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Neath
Town
Locality
Easting
275365
Northing
197629
Street Side
Location
On the street line opposite the entry to Church Place.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
1868, with C18 origins.
Exterior
Three storey and basement., 7 window bull nosed snecked masonry. Slate roof. Dressed stone stack set parallel to front at centre bearing lettering REBUILT 1868.
Brick and stone entablature to eaves cornice, dentils. Victoria sashes to shallow second floor windows. Stone lintels with pointed tops "impost band", stone sills over brick and stone corniced sill band. Eight large panes to deep first floor sash windows, stone voussoirs, stressed keystones. Dentilled stone sill band. Five plain sashes to centre of ground floor, doorways to outer bays. Lintels with stressed keystones. Grey ashlar work below moulded "impost" band. Panelled double doors, rectangular fanlight. Bull nosed masonry to plinth. Plain iron railings enclose sunken forecourt.
Interior
Interior, retains heavily conrniced ceilings. Some traces of earlier work to rear elevations.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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