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
17114
Building Number
25
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/08/1996
Date of Amendment
01/08/1996
Name of Property
25 Hannah Street
Address
25 Hannah Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Porth
Town
Porth
Locality
Porth
Easting
302714
Northing
191203
Street Side
NE
Location
Situated in the main shopping street in the centre of Porth.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Former Thomas and Evans store built 1905. Building originally contained 4 purpose built and fitted shops on ground floor, company offices above and services in basement, and was the focus for this important Rhondda firm founded 1885 which once owned at least 13 businesses in the town, elsewhere in the Rhondda and S Wales; they also owned the Welsh Hills Works mineral water factory in Porth, and were major suppliers throughout Rhondda; tea was sent to Porth from London for blending during Second World War.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its decorative and prominent gable front, notwithstanding replacement shopfronts and truncated right wing, and for its historical interest as the head office of this important 'Valleys' firm.
Group Description
22,23 and 25 Hannah Street
Of sandstone ashlar and red brick with baroque detailing; artificial slate roof with ridge tiles. Three storeys and basement comprising ground floor shops, former offices now club premises above. Frontage originally comprised main central decorative gable and lower decorative wings on each side; that to the right is included although partly remodelled. Modern shop fronts to Nos 22 and 23; No 25, originally a baker's, has cast metal inscription band under the curved shopfront window with slender mullion and decorative recessed door to left with large glazed panel and steep curved pediment above. No 24, the butcher's shop, is listed separately. First floor has 5 window main frontage of 1 central round headed and 4 rectangular windows with renewed glazing separated by pilasters with deep keystones reaching to a broken pediment above each window, the central keystone reaching to string course above and all spandrels filled with richly carved swags. Upper floor has 3 similar round headed windows with fluted pilasters, decorative Ionic capitals, cartouches with grapes at each side; above is a recessed decorative rectangular inscription plaque 'T E' with carved corn and maize motifs and engraved date above 1905. Channelled pilasters to side support scroll brackets from which rises a Flemish gable topped by a moulded coping and 5 urns. From the side the main roof visible as 3 gables. Right wing rendered; 6 round headed windows with replaced glazing and remodelled battlemented parapet. Postcard painting before 1918 shows central gable in very near current form, though flanked on both sides by wings each with 2 lower Flemish gables.
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