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
26952
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/07/2001
Date of Amendment
17/09/2002
Name of Property
,1,Pwll-y-Min Crescent,Wyndham Park,,,CF5 6LR
Address
1 Pwll-y-Min Crescent
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Peterston-super-Ely
Town
Locality
Wyndham Park
Easting
308429
Northing
176013
Street Side
E
Location
Wyndham Park is about 500m S of Peterston, on S side of River Ely. Pwll-y-Min Crescent is on N side of the main avenue, this range is on the upper slope.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A very large garden village development (Glyn Cory) on behalf of J & R Cory, the coal magnates, was proposed. A prospectus, and a brochure (both of 1909), describe proposals for a development of 1400 houses (5000-6000 inhabitants), some for sale, some for rent. A plan by Thomas Adams and Thomas Mawson projects a grand amphitheatre of concentric roads with radial avenues. The literature has designs for several conventional semi-detached houses by Speir & Bevan, architects, of Cardiff, a few of which were built in Cory Crescent, also Dyffryn Crescent. By 1914 no more than 22 houses had been built.
The unusual terrace of 10 houses in Pwll-y-Min Crescent does not appear in the electoral registers before the First World War (but registers were not compiled during the war). It is shown as complete on the Ordnance Survey map of 1919. The architect is currently not known, Unwin has suggested Thomas Adams, G Darley (cited by Unwin) has suggested the involvement in Glyn Cory of Baillie-Scott.
Exterior
No 1 has plastic windows and replaced door.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its architectural interest as part of a most unusual crescent of early C20 houses, of strikingly original design.
Group Description
Nos 1-10 Pwll-y-Min Crescent
Terraced housing. Part of a crescent-plan terrace of 10 houses in an unusual style combining elements of Moorish, Arts and Crafts, and proto-Modernist flat roofs. Painted render; flat roofs with coping. Multipane casement windows under hoodmoulds; boarded doors with central glazed quarried light. Two storeys and tower room. Units are similar but not identical throughout: generally each has a roughly central doorway with mosaic work in lunette, flanked by small hall windows; 2-light casement window above. On one side of the entrance is an advanced block with 2-storey splayed bay window and on other side a stepped back square turret with flat roof which rises above the roof line; single window to each storey of turret and doorway to flat roof; set back from turret a further narrow bay linking separate properties; projecting in front of the turret and from the entrance bay is a single storey flat roofed block, again linking properties. Rear of house has plain 3-window elevation. Swept and stepped parapets (though not matching) to Nos.3 & 4 and 5 & 6, forming the centre of the terrace. The overall design was further enhanced by a curved yew hedge with individual boarded gates with full width hinges.
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