Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Preswylfa Childrens Home
Bridgend, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 February 1987
- Town
- Bridgend
- Community
- Bridgend
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.49712, -3.58323
- Cadw reference
- 11340
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Part of a planned square.
History
Built 1880, part of the Bridgend and Cowbridge union. Arts and Crafts.
Exterior
Single-unit asymmetrical 2-storey bull nosed rubble 3-window front with outer 1st floor windows rising through overhanging eaves with dormer type roofs. Tall hipped tiled roof with ridge cresting and finials, brick capped rubble chimney stacks. Plinth and freestone window dressings. Central 2-storey and attic bay advanced and gable ended; flanking cross roofs, gabled to right, hipped to left. Mainly paired sash windows, small pane upper sashes. Lean to porch to return angle of central bay. Half hipped right end, cross gable to left end; similar detail at rear with low central extension.
In poor condition at time of inspection (April 1986).
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
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- Former Preswylfa Childrens HomeDomesticunder 1 mi
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- Administrive Block at former Preswylfa Children's HomeHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.