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
24401
Building Number
8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/10/1977
Date of Amendment
14/11/2000
Name of Property
8 Merthyr Road
Address
8 Merthyr Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Tongwynlais
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Tongwynlais
Easting
313228
Northing
182243
Street Side
NE
Location
Towards the N end of the village fronting the main thoroughfare.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Tongwynlais had an important position on the Merthyr to Cardiff highway constructed 1767 which linked the Merthyr ironworks with Cardiff, the village being sited in the narrow entrance to the Taff Vale between the mountains of Fforest Fawr and Garth Wood. It was further developed to serve the important nearby Melingriffith and Pentyrch works producing iron, tinplate, bricks and quarried stone. The grid lay-out of the central village is intact on the first edition Ordnance Survey Map surveyed 1875, with Ainon Baptist chapel nearby built 1827, enlarged 1851, the Glamorgan Canal constructed 1794, and the Taff Vale Railway in1840. Masonry of this terrace is of higher quality and probably a little earlier than that in Wyndham Street adjacent.
Exterior
Interior
Originally staircases rose beside front room fireplace (except for central staircase in no.14), some retained; some stone flagged floors and slabs from former pantries; ground floor ceiling joists of thin scantling, some exposed.
Reason for designation
Listed primarily for historic interest as a mid C19 row of workers' cottages.
Group Description
Nos. 4-22 (even)
Two storey terrace of 10 cottages opening directly onto pavement. Built of narrow coursed rubble with stone voussoirs to door and window openings, regular dressed stone quoins, rendered to side; Welsh slate roof with narrow red brick ridge corniced stacks each with 3 pots. Except for no. 14, the centre left unit, front elevations each have single window range and door, with ground floor plan of two rooms one behind the other. No. 14 has 3-window range and central door, with central staircase plan. Formerly probably small-pane sash windows, now mostly two-light casments on first floor and transomed casements on ground floor, some with rendered surrounds, some with slightly cambered heads; replaced doors. Set behind a low masonry revetment which slopes down to right.
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