Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
44 Swansea Road, including forecourt wall & piers
Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, designated on 31 July 1990.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 July 1990
- Date of amendment
- 6 August 2002
- Locality
- Hirwaun
- Community
- Hirwaun
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73836, -3.50610
- Cadw reference
- 10898
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from and placed at an angle to the road near the W end of Swansea Road, and E of Millstreet Bridge.
History
An early C19 house shown on the 1840 Tithe map, which may therefore have been occupied by a clerk or manager at Hirwaun Ironworks.
Exterior
A Georgian house of 2 storeys with attic and basement, of limewashed rubble-stone 3-window front, roof replaced with synthetic slates, and rendered end stacks. Openings are offset to the R and have cambered heads. Most of the windows in the front elevation are renewed small-pane sashes in original openings. The central round-headed doorway has a panelled door and replaced plain overlight. In the lower storey the windows are irregularly placed to the R and L of the doorway, while immediately L of the doorway is a blocked former window (only visible inside the house). The upper storey has 3 regularly placed and smaller windows. The basement, occupying the L side of the house, has an original 12-pane hornless sash window to the L, and a boarded door to the R with a small inserted fixed light to its R. The L gable end is rendered. The rubble-stone rear has a single-storey outshut with basement, which has been raised to 2 storeys under a pitched roof on the L side. Windows are replaced but a 2-light C19 casement window is retained to the basement on the R side, while a replaced door is to the L side.
In front of the centre and R side of the house is a forecourt. Its gateway has square freestone piers with pyramid caps (gates are missing), to the R of which is a dwarf wall with iron railings, terminating with a pier similar to the gate piers.
Interior
Openings are blocked that formerly provided internal access to No 45. A single slate chimneypiece has survived in the lower storey. In the upper storey is a fragment of a former stone winding attic stair. The lower storey retains panelled doors, the upper storey boarded doors.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare well-preserved early C19 town house retaining original character.
Nearby in the register
- Nebo Independent ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tramroad causeway and bridge at Hirwaun IronworksTransportunder 1 mi
- Hirwaun war memorial clock towerCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Site of Hirwaun IronworksIronworksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.