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
24851
Building Number
7
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/2001
Date of Amendment
26/02/2001
Name of Property
Market Tavern Hotel
Address
7 Market Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Pontypridd
Town
Pontypridd
Locality
Pontypridd
Easting
307240
Northing
190133
Street Side
W
Location
Within the pedestrianised area of the town centre on the N side of Market Chambers.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built 1892-3 to the design of Thomas Rowlands, architect, and conceived as part of a group with the adjacent Market Chambers.
Exterior
A hotel of 3 storeys with attic and built of white brick with red-brick dressings, freestone lintels, sills and cornices, and sash windows. The roof is slate. The front is faceted and is of 3 unequal bays. The L-hand bay, in the L facet, has triple windows in the middle and upper storeys, while the centre and R-hand bays, in the R facet, have double windows. The middle storey windows are lintelled, the upper storey round-headed with moulded stone impost band carried up over the window heads. There is a moulded cornice and moulded band between middle and upper storeys. Each facet has an attic dormer that is pedimented with pilasters, and has an oval window. In the lower storey is a replaced door to the R side. The original front has been mostly replaced, but pilasters and end consoles of the fascia survive of the original front. To the L is a single-bay splayed angle, housing a replaced door in the lower storey.
The L side elevation faces a passage to the Market Hall. In the lower storey the fascia and pilasters of the shop front continue for one narrow bay. Further L is a single blind bay under an entablature in the lower storey, with paired sash windows above that are narrower and plainer than the front. Further L again is a lower 2-storey rear wing of 2 gabled bays. In the lower storey are modern shop fronts (a side entrance to the hotel in the R-hand bay, Nu-Life shoe repairs to the L-hand). In the upper storey each bay has a pair of round-headed sash windows and a small round-headed gable window.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Market Chambers and for its contribution to the architectural character of Market Street.
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