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
1915
Building Number
49
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/11/1993
Date of Amendment
23/12/1998
Name of Property
49 Garden Suburbs, Circus
Address
49 Garden Suburbs, Circus
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Crosskeys
Town
Locality
Pont-y-Waun Garden Suburb
Easting
322142
Northing
192960
Street Side
SW
Location
Set below the road on the lower S side of the Circus, one of the principal blocks in the Garden Suburbs.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Part of the Garden City Movement, Garden Suburbs Pont-y-Waun was begun c1918, built by Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Co. for the officials of the Abercarn, Cwm Carn and Prince of Wales Collieries and was completed in 3 or 4 phases. The linear plan is composed of a single road with circus near the mid-point and the houses on the E side are set above the road while those to the W are below it. The architect is unknown although Edward Rosser has been suggested and links have also been made with Ebbw Vale and The Dingle garden villages; the variety of design probably indicates the work of several architects. First housing development in the Borough with an electricity supply and adequate drainage system.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for the special interest of its Arts and Crafts design at the heart of this well-preserved garden village. Group value especially with the other blocks of the Circus.
Group Description
Nos 49-55 (odd - consec) Garden Suburbs, Circus
Arts and Crafts, butterfly-plan block comprising four, 2-storey houses, each with single window range front. The design of the distinctively gabled elevations shows possible influence of the architecture of Philip Webb. Nos 49 and 55 are pebbledashed while Nos 51 and 53 are tile-hung and all have tiled roofs with swept overhanging eaves and brick chimney stacks. Some of the original leaded casement glazing is retained and is otherwise mostly replaced in imitation. The symmetrical design of the main front is focused on the twinned, tile-hung, gables which sweep down low to either side and are jettied out and boarded to top (compare with Nos 22 to 28). 4-light windows to first floor and splayed bays below with hipped roofs. The entrances are to either side, contained beneath the base of the gables. Single-window wings have hipped hoods to 3-light first floor windows. In contrast to Nos 22 to 28 and Nos 30 to 36 the gable ends to north and east are symmetrical and have brick-tiled detail and cambered-arched 5-light windows to first floor, 7-light below. Gabled rear with fewer dormers than on the other principal blocks.
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