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
15668
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/12/1994
Date of Amendment
10/03/2003
Name of Property
Former Penrhiwceiber Welfare Institute
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Penrhiwceiber
Town
Mountain Ash
Locality
Penrhiwceiber
Easting
305996
Northing
197476
Street Side
Location
Located on a corner plot , just south of the centre of Penrhiwceiber.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
Built 1913, possibly designed by TW Millard of Mountain Ash. Contained a dance hall, snooker room and library. Ground floor contained the hardwood dance floor a small stage and kitchen. Basement level contained gym and boiler room. Staircase at rear led to a bar and snooker room on first floor and to libary and reading room on top floor.
Exterior
Hall and Institute with a terracotta facade in Renaissance revival style. A three-storey building, three bays to the front with a parapet and gabled slate roof; the side elevation is five bays; the sides and rear are rendered. The windows are square headed with 12-pane sashes, all retained though ground floor concealed by 1990s security blockings. The terracotta facade has full-length pilasters at each corner with sunken panels and the date 1913 at the top; parapet was re-built in the 1950s the storeys are separated by deep moulded string courses. The ground floor is rusticated, with a central doorway and two windows, each with pronounced keystones joining a string course above; the doorway has a deep hood supported on acanthus brackets and rusticated pilasters; recessed paired four-panel doors. Each of the upper two storeys has three equally spaced windows: the first floor windows have deep moulded surrounds, a continuous sill, and curling brackets supporting cornices. The top floor windows are camber-headed with plain moulded architraves.
Interior
Currrently unused. Large rooms on each floor. Most internal fittings removed in the expectation of conversion to alternative use.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good smaller example of this important building type, especially notable for its unaltered terracotta facade.
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