Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
24900
Building Number
163
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/02/1980
Date of Amendment
26/02/2001
Name of Property
,163,Broadway,Treforest,Pontypridd,,CF37 1BH
Address
163 Broadway
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Pontypridd
Town
Pontypridd
Locality
Treforest
Easting
308016
Northing
189484
Street Side
W
Location
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A piecemeal development begun in the second quarter of the C19, probably mainly corresponding with the enlargement of the Treforest Tinplate Works in 1835. Nos 161-72 are shown on the 1846 Tithe map, while Nos 172-6 were probably added soon after. Most of the houses are double-fronted with 2 ground floor rooms and winding stone stairs, a type characteristic of early C19 S Wales. At the S end, No 161 is larger and may have been a foreman's house, while Nos 162-4 were probably originally pairs of back-to-back single-unit dwellings, a type not well documented in S Wales.
Exterior
A single-fronted house with stone segmental-headed openings, and roof replaced with synthetic slates. Built as a pair with No 164.
Interior
Both ground floor rooms retain stone winding stairs, suggesting that they were originally 2 dwellings.
Reason for designation
Nos 161-176 are listed, notwithstanding modern alteration, for their social-historical interest as the most instructive surviving example of early-mid C19 workmen's houses in Pontypridd.
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