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
18503
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/07/1997
Date of Amendment
14/07/1997
Name of Property
Colonel North Memorial Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Maesteg
Town
Maesteg
Locality
Maesteg
Easting
285314
Northing
191336
Street Side
SE
Location
Located at right angles to the Town Hall, facing the 'square' at the centre of Maesteg.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
Following a visit to the Llynfi Reading Room and Library in 1889, Col J J North, chairman of North's Navigation Collieries, gave a donation of £500 to be used for the benefit of the company's employees in Maesteg. A futher £1,500 was raised by weekly contributions from the workmen. The Building, on the site of the former Reading Room, was designed by a local architect E W Burnett and dedicated to the memory of Col. North who had died in 1896.
Exterior
Built of rock-faced stone with red brick dressings, slate roof. Two storeys and attic, narrow 3 bay front, returning as 4 bays. The facade has end brick panelled pilasters and moulded terracotta strings. The central bay is set forward and gabled, having a distinctive large trefoil in the gable. Two windows on each floor, shorter to the attic, and similar windows to the side bays. A central inset panel reads COLONEL NORTH / MEMORIAL HALL / 1897. A red sandstone date stone is set on the lower left side. The side elevation has single and paired lights, and 2 raised and gabled dormer windows to the attic level. Pedimented door with moulded terracotta foliage in the tympanum.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a building of special interest in the civic development of Maesteg, and one of a group of significant listed buildings at the centre of the town.
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