Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
21501
Building Number
13
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/03/1999
Date of Amendment
02/05/2001
Name of Property
Preswylfa
Address
13 Bryngwyn Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Newbridge
Town
Locality
Newbridge
Easting
320211
Northing
196666
Street Side
S
Location
On a corner site with Hall's Road, facing the main thoroughfare, at the end of a terrace towards the west of the town.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
One of four similar Mine Managers''/Owners'' houses in late Arts and Crafts style in the area, the others being at Abercarn, Ebbw Vale and Pontywaun Garden Suburb - the houses of the Garden Suburb also being in comparable style and begun c1918. This was, for a time, the former residence of successive managers of Crumlin Colliery.
Exterior
Detached house. Painted roughcast with brick dressings and plinth and steep pitched tiled roof with overhanging boarded eaves. Casement windows of leaded rectangular quarries, some original some replaced. L-shaped plan and with an asymmetrical frontage: to left a 2-storeyed steep pitched gabled bay with 4-light first floor window set within a narrow segmental arched brick surround; flat roofed canted bay below. To right the roof sweeps down over the ground floor windows incorporating at first floor level a dormer with 3 similar but smaller lights and extends over double and triple hall lights forming also a bracketed hood over the half glazed and boarded front door. Uphill facing elevation has 4-light first floor window now without quarries and canted flat-roofed ground floor bay. To rear the stacks are more prominent, one on the ridge, another on the rear wing and a tall external stack of brick rendered below, some retaining their original pots; windows with tiled sills and brick surrounds; staircase window with decorative coloured glass.
Interior
Front door opens onto spacious hall off which lead rooms and staircase. Main living room has inglenook fireplace.
Reason for designation
Included for its historic interest as one of 4 regional Mine Managers''/Owners'' houses in an accomplished Garden Village style.
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