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
18594
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/07/1997
Date of Amendment
28/07/1997
Name of Property
4 The Bungalows
Address
Balance Road (off)
Location
Unitary Authority
Torfaen
Community
Abersychan
Town
Pontypool
Locality
Varteg
Easting
325412
Northing
205175
Street Side
Location
In Varteg Waste about 1000m west of Varteg and approached by a road off New Road.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
A row of cottages converted from a mine building perhaps the carpenter's shop of Lower Varteg Colliery. The building probably dates from the mid C19 and was converted when the mine was closed in the C20. They are a very unusual example of the re-use of an existing mine building in such a way as to preserve its historic character.
Exterior
Painted rubble stone with concrete tile roofs replicating stone tiles. Single storey row of four double fronted double depth cottages, which have paired bathroom extensions added in the C20. Eight over eight sashes in elliptical heads flank a doorway with partially glazed C20 door with small elliptically headed light over. Paired rendered stacks. No 4 has an additional C20 stove stack on the front slope. Each house at the rear has two more eight over eight sashes and a paired gabled bathroom extension.
Interior
Interiors not inspected at the time of resurvey (January 1997).
Reason for designation
Included as a very unusual example of the re-use of an existing mine building in such a way as to preserve its historic character through a conversion to housing.
Group Description
Nos 1-4 (consec), The Bungalows.
Painted rubble stone with concrete tile roofs replicating stone tiles. Single storey row of four double fronted double depth cottages, which have paired bathroom extensions added in the C20. Eight over eight sashes in elliptical heads flank a doorway with partially glazed C20 door with small elliptically headed light over. Paired rendered stacks. No 4 has an additional C20 stove stack on the front slope. Each house at the rear has two more eight over eight sashes and a paired gabled bathroom extension.
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