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
19177
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/01/1998
Date of Amendment
02/01/1998
Name of Property
The Talbot Institute
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Pyle
Town
Cynffig
Locality
Kenfig Hill
Easting
283685
Northing
182955
Street Side
W
Location
The building is set in a terrace of C19 buildings, approximately 100m from the junction of Princes Road with Commercial Road.
Description
Broad Class
Health and Welfare
Period
History
Built in 1911 as a working man's institute at the cost of £2,000 presented by Miss Talbot of Margam. It was in 3 sections, one for games containing two billiard tables, one for newspaper reading, and the third a library with 4000 volumes, and including an area for magazines.
Exterior
Built of rock-faced squared rubble with stone dressings, slate roof. Meeting hall with service rooms to the rear. Gabled front elevation to the street; central doorway, the quoins with arris staff rolls and capital band from which springs a voussoired arch with a moulded hood. Later doors inserted under a cambered tympanum. One paned timber window each side, also quoined and with a label drip mould slightly cambered at the centre. A similar paned window above the door and a keyed oculus in the gable head. Cusped timber bargeboards with iron finial. The side walls are pebbledashed, with five brick-dressed windows and end doors each side, the windows 4-paned with top hung vents.
Interior
The interior of the hall is of 6 bays, with open trusses and boarded ceiling.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantially unaltered multi-purpose social and educational building for working men and miners in the industrial areas of S Wales, unusual in that it was paid for by a major landowning family rather than by the workers themselves.
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