Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11342
Building Number
4&5
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/1987
Date of Amendment
26/02/1987
Name of Property
Former Preswylfa Childrens Home
Address
4&5 Merthyr Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Bridgend
Town
Locality
Bridgend
Easting
290158
Northing
178716
Street Side
Location
To SW of No 3 near the southern corner of a planned square.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built 1902, part of the Bridgend and Cowbridge union.
Exterior
Twin-unit, symmetrically stepped, 2-storey, 6-window bull-nosed rubble front with low buttresses, plinth and freestone dressings. Tall tiled roofs, lower to ends, with overhanging eaves, ridge cresting and finials, rubble chimney stacks and central dividing parapet. Hipped and gabled cross roofs, advanced to penultimate bays, with lean-to porches to outer return walls. Mainly paired sash windows.
Half-hipped end walls, similar detail at rear with 2-single storey extensions.
In poor condition at the time of inspection (April 1986).
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
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