Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11468
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/08/1975
Date of Amendment
13/01/1988
Name of Property
District Education Office of Mid-Glamorgan County Council (YMCA)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Park
Town
Locality
Easting
305007
Northing
206590
Street Side
N
Location
Dominant, highly-coloured building on terrace above the road, close to the junction with High Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
1911. First building designed by (Sir) Percy Thomas after he set up in practice with Ivor Jones.
Exterior
4-storey, 7-bay Edwardian Baroque façade with red brick facings and terracotta dressings; slate roofs with chimneys to end parapets. Emphasised and rusticated centre bay with segmental pediment and flanking stacks, 2-storey splayed bay cantilevered over compressed first-floor windows with YMCA panel; arched, keyblocked and cavetto-splayed main entrance with recessed door-screen. Rusticated ends to pilastered outer bays with tripartite top windows, cornices and aprons to second-floor, first-floor with segmental arches. All small-pane glazing. Overall fascias with paired Doric half-columns to glazed outer ground-floor bays. Brick rear range with segmental bow facing W.
Interior
Full-height Imperial staircase within entrance hall, good ironwork handrail with trellised newels.
Reason for designation
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