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
23242
Building Number
8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/07/1987
Date of Amendment
28/04/2000
Name of Property
8 Alfred's Terrace
Address
8 Alfred's Terrace
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Taffs Well
Town
Pontypridd
Locality
Taffs Well
Easting
312418
Northing
183195
Street Side
S
Location
Located in the village between Cardiff Road (A4054) and the Taff Vale Railway.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
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.
Exterior
The sash windows are horned.
Interior
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.
Group Description
Nos 1-11 Alfred's Terrace, Taffs Well.
A 2-storey range of rubble stone under a slate roof. Five reflected pairs (nos 2 to 11), and a further cottage (no 1) with entrance to the W end. Each pair shares a brick stack with cornice band. Each cottage has a doorway under a round arched brick head, mainly containing a panelled door with a 2-pane fan-light. 1-window to L or R, those to each storey aligned. The windows to the lower storey have segmental brick heads, the upper storey windows with cambered brick heads. Deep 8-over-8-pane sash windows, mainly hornless, with stone sills. To the rear, the cottages have kitchen extensions, set within yard boundary walls. Originally they probably had a door and window to the lower storey. Each cottage has 2 sash windows to the upper storey, as front, but with segmental brick heads. Some sky-lights to rear roof pitch. Originally each cottage had a room to front and rear, with the staircase in the front room opposite the fireplace. Most have now been modernised, with the front and rear rooms as one, and a kitchen added to the rear.
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