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
24873
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
26/02/2001  
Date of Amendment
20/06/2001  
Name of Property
Trehafod Memorial Hall and Institute  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff  
Community
Trehafod  
Town
Pontypridd  
Locality
Trehafod  
Easting
304603  
Northing
190925  
Street Side
N  
Location
Set back from the road behind iron railings.  

Description


Broad Class
Institutional  
Period
 

History
Built in 1934 (date on building) partly as a memorial to the 1914-18 war.  

Exterior
A free Art Deco style hall of 2 storeys, with a front of brick and reconstituted stone, and slate roof. Metal-framed windows have thin vertical panes, and incorporate diamond panes to the centre. The front is 3 bays. Pilasters define the central bay, which has a wide recessed entrance with Tuscan columns in antis supporting a plain entablature with relief inscription, and half-lit doors and overlight. The upper storey is double-height with triple windows, of which the upper level have flat brick arches. The outer bays are lower and set back. They have zigzag mouldings to the parapet that continue in the return walls for a single bay, and rusticated brick angle pilasters. The pitched roof is set back behind the parapet and rises to a flat centre which has 2 ventilators. The sides are pebble-dashed with scattered fenestration. A house is attached set back to the R side, with a lower gabled projection to the L side. The rear is faced in brick.  

Interior
Simple interior with small rooms in lower storey and stairs on the R side of the entrance vestibule leading to a hall with stage to the upper storey.  

Reason for designation
Listed for social historical interest, and for the architectural interest of its front, a rare unaltered example of 1930s classicism.  

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