Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
09/11/1998
Date of Amendment
09/11/1998
Name of Property
27-52 Park Terrace (consec)
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Location
At the extreme NW corner of the community adjoining open land to W and NW of former Tondu Ironworks.
History
Terraced housing built for the ironworkers to replace the early temporary wooden huts and known as company houses, the rent deducted from workers' wages. Constructed near the works, which were in operation day and night, in 1856 (dated at number 28) and thus shortly after John Brogden and Son took over the Ironworks in 1854 from Sir Robert Price who had established them in the 1830s.
Reason for designation
Listed in spite of some alterations as substantially intact terracing from the mid C19 unencumbered by later development in the area and for the close historical association with the early development of the nearby Tondu Ironworks, founded 1836, much of which is still extant.
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