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
13754
Building Number
88
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
31/05/2002
Name of Property
Bridge House
Address
88 Merthyr Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Whitchurch
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Whitchurch
Easting
315630
Northing
179838
Street Side
Location
Immediately opposite to Tabernacle Chapel and about 300m south-east of the Church of St. Mary.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A house dating from c1800 which has not been altered externally. The iron caps on the gatepiers (qv) may suggest that this house was the Manse for the Tabernacle Chapel opposite, which has the same feature, until the adjoining Manse was built.
Exterior
The house is roughcast rendered, probably over rubble stone, with a Welsh slate roof with red brick stacks. Two storeys. three bays, central entrance double depth plan, with rear service outshut. Central doorway with trellised porch with tented roof; rectangular fanlight with tracery; three panelled door. Sash windows with glazing bars, 6 over 6 panes, and stone cills. Plain gabled roof with end stacks. Gable elevation is blind. Rear elevation has a 3 over 6 pane sash on the upper floor and a small two storey outshut on left. To the right of the house is a small gabled building, once the stable but later altered to a shop. It retains the doorway with ventilator over and the hayloft door above.
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey (November 2001).
Reason for designation
Included as a small unaltered house of c1800 having group value with the Tabernacle Chapel opposite.
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