Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11339
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/1987
Date of Amendment
26/02/1987
Name of Property
Former Preswylfa Childrens Home
Address
1 Merthyr Mawr Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Bridgend
Town
Locality
Easting
290205
Northing
178791
Street Side
Location
At the eastern corner, of a planned square, to SE of the administrative block.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built 1880, part of the Bridgend and Cowbridge union. Arts and Crafts.
Exterior
Single-unit asymmetrical 2-storey bull-nosed rubble 3-window front with outer 1st floor windows rising through overhanging eaves with dormer type roofs. Tall hipped tiled roof with ridge cresting and finials, brick capped rubble chimney stacks. Plinth and freestone window dressings. Central 2-storey and attic bay advanced and gable ended; flanking cross roofs, gabled to right, hipped to left. Mainly paired sash windows. Lean-to porch to return angle of central bay. Half hipped right end, cross gable to left end; similar detail at rear with low central extension.
In poor condition at time of inspection (April 1986).
Interior
Reason for designation
Group Value.
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