11817

 

II  

Designated  

05/01/1989  

05/01/1989  

Constitutional Club  

 

Neath Port Talbot  

Neath  

 

 

275370  

197535  

 

Set back from the street line next to St David’s Church.  

Recreational  

 

Late C19 gothic.  

Two storey and attic 5 window front. Patterned brick facings. Steeply pitched slate roof, hopped to corner. Yellow brick eaves band, machiolated effect. Original decorative ironwork rainwater goods. Four gabled dormers, tile cresting and finials. Deep verges, bargeboards form pointed arches. Modern glazing. Two similar to side elevation. Recessed panels house first floor windows, machiolated effect to top. Polychrome brickwork, pointed arches and continuous impost band. Two light windows below tropartite cusped lights to tympani with lead cames. Deep, moulded yellow brick sills bands with paterae, string course. Pentagonal bartizan oriel window to right corner; similar detail, spirelet with ironwork finial. Freestone decorated tracery, lead cames, moulded bracket on angular brick shaft with freestone corbel. Stilted arches to ground floor windows, polychrome arches, continuous impost and sill bands. Sashes, 6 small panes to upper sash, stone sills. Rectangular porch to centre. First floor will band forms parapet bearing lettering CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB. Pointed polychrome 2 order arch with colonettes. Quatrefoils to spandrels bearing crown to left and mitre to right, stilted arches to sash windows on sides. Panelled inner doors. Similar detail to front on 2 window elevation to right end, but first floor windows paired in single recess.  

 

Group value with Gwyn Hall and St David’s Church.