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
21058
Building Number
40
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/11/1993
Date of Amendment
23/12/1998
Name of Property
40 Garden Suburbs
Address
40 Garden Suburbs
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Crosskeys
Town
Locality
Pont-y-Waun Garden Suburb
Easting
322169
Northing
192894
Street Side
E
Location
Set above the road to S of the Circus. Rubble boundary wall to front gardens retains some original timber gates.
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
Included for group value with other listed items at Pont-y-Waun Garden suburb and for its well-preserved original character.
Group Description
Nos 38-48 (even - consec) Garden Suburbs
Terraced group of six 2-storey cottages designed in reflected pairs with pebble-dashed fronts, tiled roofs and brick chimney stacks. Each pair has twinned asymmetrical gables with cambered-headed windows. Much of the original leaded casement glazing is retained; some replacements in similar style. The gables have 4-light first storey windows and 3-light windows below beside the entrances, except the end properties Nos 38 and 48, which have 5-light ground floor windows. Gabled hoods to boarded doors with wave-shaped head to inset small-pane light. Between each pair of gables are twinned, flat-roofed, tile-hung dormers with 3-light windows. These are over splayed bay windows which flank a through-passage and their roofs are continuous to form a hood over the passage's round-arched entrance.
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