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
22869
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/02/2000
Date of Amendment
25/02/2000
Name of Property
Dulais Fach
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Tonna
Town
Locality
Aberdulais
Easting
277604
Northing
199286
Street Side
N
Location
Set back on the N side of Dulais Fach Road with Dulais Isaf House attached to the W and N sides.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The original house was probably built in the late C18 or early C19. In 1846 it was inhabited by William Llewellyn, founder and owner of the nearby Aberdulais Tinplate Works. In the third quarter of the C19 it was enlarged with a new entrance front and a service wing behind, reached from a rear entrance where a coach house was also built, all of which is first shown on the Ordnance Survey of 1877. In the mid C20 the house was divided into 2 separate dwellings, the C19 entrance front and attached wing becoming Dulais Isaf House, the original house and C19 service wing retaining the name Dulais Fach.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its historical interest as the home of a prominent local industrialist and for group value with the attached Dulais Isaf House.
Group Description
Dulais Fach and Dulais Isaf House
The entrance block (now Dulais Isaf House) is a 2-storey house of pebble-dashed walls with blind panels bordered with render, hipped slate roof with a stack behind to the R and an added stack on the L side. The front has deep canted bay windows to the outer bays with sash windows and a sill band to the upper storey. A central portico has 2 moulded Tuscan columns and moulded entablature and supports a balcony. The balcony has a replaced glazed door. The main doorway has an overlight and double half-lit panelled doors. The R side wall is 1-bay with 12-pane sash windows in each storey. The L end wall has 2 upper-storey sash windows and a glazed doorway inserted lower L. A 3-bay rear wing is set back on the L side This has 2 sash windows in the lower storey and an added lean-to porch on the L side. The upper storey retains a sash window on the L side, the central window being a small-pane replacement, the R-hand window boarded up. To the rear of the wing and of the main house is Dulais Fach, the front of which faces E.
Dulais Fach is the earlier house and is a 3-storey, 3-bay late Georgian house, roughcast and painted cream, with a slate roof and end roughcast stacks. Flanking the central doorway, which has an added porch and replaced door, are late C19 tripartite sash windows. The middle storey has 12-pane hornless sash windows, while the shorter upper storey windows are late C19 replacements beneath the wall plate.
Set back on the R side is a lower 2-storey service wing of rubble stone with dressed quoins, and a slate roof with stone ridge stacks to the L of centre and to the R. The 3-window front wall has segmental-headed 2-light small-pane casements, except lower L where a horned sash window is inserted.
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