24901

164  

II  

Designated  

04/02/1980  

26/02/2001  

,164,Broadway,Treforest,Pontypridd,,CF37 1BH  

164 Broadway  

Rhondda Cynon Taff  

Pontypridd  

Pontypridd  

Treforest  

308012  

189487  

W  

 

Domestic  

 

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.  

A single-fronted house with segmental-headed openings, the roof replaced with synthetic slates but retaning a stone stack to the R. Built as a pair with No 163 and with a higher roof line than No 165, which is probably later.  

 

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.