Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11347
Building Number
12
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/1987
Date of Amendment
26/02/1987
Name of Property
Former Preswylfa Childrens Home
Address
12 Merthyr Mawr Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Bridgend
Town
Locality
Bridgend
Easting
290104
Northing
178794
Street Side
Location
Midway along the NW side of a planned square.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built 1880, part of the Bridgend and Cowbridge union.
Exterior
Arts and Crafts. 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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