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
21449
Building Number
3
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/03/1999
Date of Amendment
05/03/1999
Name of Property
3
Address
3 The Row
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Rudry
Town
Locality
Draethen
Easting
322109
Northing
187377
Street Side
Location
On the N side of the main road through Draethen. No 3 is centre-L in a row of 4.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Pebble-dashed front wall. The front door is boarded with cast iron strap hinges, the 2-light casement windows are part renewed in original openings.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey but originally a 2-room plan.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare surviving example of a row of early C19 estate cottages in this region.
Group Description
1-4 The Row
A row of 4 cottages built in 1824 (date on building) by the Tredegar Estate in a simple Gothick style. The cottages are single-storey and 2-window and form 2 reflected pairs, the outer cottages having doorways at the ends, while the inner cottages have doorways to the centre. A small date stone is between the 2 central doorways. The windows and doorways have pointed heads and tooled stone dressings. The roof is hipped with replaced pan tiles and the cottages all have roughcast ridge stacks.
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