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
2435
Building Number
22
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/02/1974
Date of Amendment
08/06/2006
Name of Property
22 Merthyr Road
Address
22 Merthyr Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Abergavenny
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Abergavenny
Easting
329534
Northing
214454
Street Side
SE
Location
Left-hand house in a short terrace to SW of the junction with Brecon Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early to mid C19, probably 1840s; shown on the town plan of Abergavenny of 1853 accompanying contemporary proposed Abergavenny Improvement Reservoir Aqueduct Plan. It is shown on the 1844 Tithe Map.
Exterior
Rear elevation not inspected.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as part of a well-preserved group of small scale early C19 housing close to the junction with Brecon Road.
Group Description
Nos. 22-26 (even) Merthyr Road
Built with walling of very roughly coursed and squared sandstone rubble with red brick dressings; natural slate roof with red brick stacks. Two storey double depth row, centre house, No. 24, projects forward slightly with a wide plain gable over the two upper windows. Entrance to No. 24 under gable, entrances to both end houses (Nos. 22 and 26) in return elevations. Each house of two window bays, end houses with blind walling in outer bays on ground floor. Ground floor windows with slightly cambered heads. Centre house on ground floor with a sash window with 8 over 8 panes to left hand and gabled porch with trellised sides and 6-panelled door with top two panels glazed to right hand. Both end houses have a tripartite sash window with 6 over 6 panes flanked by 3 over 3 in inner bays. Six over 6 pane sash windows in segmental headed openings on first floor. Plain low pitch roof with a shred stack on each party wall. Each return elevation with a narrow window on first floor and modern gabled porch on ground floor before a 6-panelled door; No. 26 with rectangular fanlight with tracery.
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