13555

2  

II  

Designated  

12/05/1975  

15/05/2001  

No.2 The Terrace and attached garden wall with gate piers  

2 The Terrace  

Caerphilly  

Rhymney  

Rhymney  

Rhymney  

311126  

207669  

E  

The Terrace runs parallel with Rhymney River along its E bank: this terrace forms the centre of the listed group.  

Domestic  

 

Built early-mid C19 as accommodation for managers/officials of the Rhymney Ironworks. Traditionally the large houses at each end (Nos.1 and 9) were for the Manager of the Company Shop and Chief Colliery Manager; the next two houses of intermediate size were for the Chief Cashier and Assistant General Manager; the central houses were for lower managers, surgeon, police officer and chief fireman. A rise in status meant a move to larger accommodation. End families were traditionally church supporters and centre families chapel goers. The Terrace is called Buchan Terrace on OS Map 1875, referring to Andrew Buchan, manager of Brewery and Company Shop, both situated along this street by the river. Residents objected to the brewery association which led to the change in name. Map shows many houses with rear outshuts and sheds against their rear walls: the house inhabited by a policeman incorporated a small jail. Map also shows tramways running each side of terrace.  

No.2 at terrace end left has unpainted render, 3 window range of horned sashes on first floor, 3 top opening casements to ground floor; door at end right. Further sashes to side elevation. Front wall has exotically-shaped coping stones set on top of original coping.  

Interiors reported as all different with many flying freeholds.  

Listed, notwithstanding window and other alterations, as specially interesting early-mid C19 housing associated with the Rhymney Iron Company. Group value with other listed houses and items in the range.  

Nos. 2-8 (consec) The Terrace Terrace row of seven cottages. Built of roughcast stone rubble with red brick stacks set astride the ridge, most with 4 pots; shallow pitched roofs of Welsh slate with terracotta ridge tiles and overhanging boarded eaves. Each cottage is 2 storeys, the centre ones (Nos.3,4,5,6,7) double fronted, a 2 window range with off centre doorways. Nos.1 and 9 The Terrace are separately listed and substantially larger though 9 is attached; Nos.2 and 8 are of intermediate size with a 3 and 4 window range respectively. Windows were originally 6-pane sashes in reveals with narrow sills; doors had moulded stucco surrounds incorporating a keystone, narrow overlights. To rear the roof has a flatter pitch; small-pane windows, mostly replaced. Garden wall extends round side of No.2 garden and in front of terrace to join with garden wall of No.9. It is of rubble with end sections of added tall coping stones, many weathered to exotic shapes; other areas have the original yellow terracotta saddle-back coping; gate piers are short, some with tooled quoins, some with flat or rockfaced capstones, attached iron gates with double uprights below centre rail; in front is a pavement bordered by a water channel crossed by metal slab bridges.