Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
17/07/1987
Date of Amendment
28/04/2000
Name of Property
,5,Alfred's Terrace,Taffs Well,Pontypridd,,
Address
5 Alfred's Terrace
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Location
Located in the village between Cardiff Road (A4054) and the Taff Vale Railway.
History
A terrace of mid C19 cottages shown as Garth Terrace on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey of 1874, but not shown on the Eglwysilan tithe map of 1841. They may have been built for workers at the Garth Foundry which was on the opposite side of the Taff Vale Railway. Known as Alfred's Terrace by the time of the Ordnance Survey of 1900. A 3-window house was built on to the E end of the terrace c1900. No 1 at the W end of the terrace was altered in the mid C20.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusually well preserved example of a terrace of workers cottages. Such examples are becoming increasingly rare in South Wales.
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