21044

26  

II  

Designated  

15/11/1993  

23/12/1998  

26 Garden Suburbs, Circus  

26 Garden Suburbs, Circus  

Caerphilly  

Crosskeys  

 

Pont-y-Waun Garden Suburb  

322199  

192971  

NE  

Situated on the upper N side of the circus, one of the principal blocks in the Garden Suburbs. Undulating front garden with similarly shaped rubble boundary wall, which to left links with Nos 10 to 20.  

Defence  

 

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.  

 

 

Listed for the special interest of its Arts and Crafts design at the heart of this well-preserved garden village. Group value especially with other blocks of the Circus.  

Nos 22-28 (even - consec) Garden Suburb, Circus Arts and Crafts, butterfly-plan block comprising four, 2-storey and attic, houses, each with single window range front. Rubble elevations with quoins, tiled roofs with swept overhanging eaves and tall chimney stacks, including three to the main front pitch; the original windows have leaded casement glazing. The symmetrical design of the main front is focused on the distinctive twinned gables which show possible influence of the architecture of Philip Webb. They sweep down low to either side and are jettied out and boarded to top over 4-light windows. Although the gables here have modern boarding, replacement glazing and modern ground floor bow windows (? originally bays - cf Nos 49 to 55), the Arts and Crafts character of the original design is largely retained. At the base of the gables are broad round-headed entrances with split-stone voussoirs and recessed doors. Single window wings have gables over 2-light first floor windows and 3-light ground floor windows under cambered relieving arches. Asymmetrical gable ends to W and S with attic lights, kneelers and stone chimney stacks to rear pitch; that to south is roughcast rendered. Ground floor doorways with segmental arched hoods and flanking windows to Nos 22 and 28. Flat roofed dormers and tiled outshuts to rear. Replaced windows in similar style to original.