Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
26/02/1987
Date of Amendment
26/02/1987
Name of Property
Former Preswylfa Childrens Home
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Location
At the southern corner of a planned square.
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).
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
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