21057

71  

II  

Designated  

15/11/1993  

23/12/1998  

71 Garden Suburbs  

71 Garden Suburbs  

Caerphilly  

Crosskeys  

 

Pont-y-Waun Garden Suburb  

322119  

192798  

W  

Set below the road in the S part of the Garden Suburbs, this block borders Arch Hill where it was originally linked to Nos 57-63 by an arch.  

Domestic  

 

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.  

 

 

Included for group value despite many alterations on account of the special interest of the chimneys and its contribution, together with Nos 57-63, to this well-designed garden suburb.  

Nos 65-71 (odd - consec) Garden Suburbs Short terrace of single-storey and attic houses, each with 2-window fronts. The design is distinctive for the gables and tall rubble chimney stacks to each end, in the manner of sub-medieval lateral chimneys, together with the square ridge stacks to Nos 67 and 69. Mostly pebbledashed but the larger and advanced gabled bays to Nos 67 and 71 are rubble with split-stone kneelers to No. 67 and large stone lintels; remaining attic windows to the front are contained under small gables. Concrete tile replacement roofs with overhanging eaves. 2 and 3-light leaded casement glazing originally but now replaced. Hooded doorways to Nos 65 and 67; round-headed arched doorway to No 71. No 71 has single storey wing left (comparable to No 57 in adjacent block). Gable end of No 65 has projecting rubble bay which is asymmetrically gabled with wide bracketed eaves and ramped buttresses, all in a strongly Arts and Crafts style. There was originally an archway that linked Nos 65 to 71 with the adjacent block Nos 57 to 63 - hence the name Arch Hill for the road between the two. At the rear there are tall twinned gables to centre, full-height broad stone gable to No 71 and small gable with swept eaves to No 65.