Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
22 Cyfartha Road
Park, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1988
- Locality
- Williamstown
- Community
- Park
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.75272, -3.38838
- Cadw reference
- 11415
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
Stepped terrace of industrial housing set into hillside below Brecon Road; facing SW over River Taff towards site of former Cyfarthfa Ironworks.
History
Built between 1836 and 1851.
Exterior
2-storey rubble fronts, right hand house and middle three rendered. Slate roofs (No 24 modern pantiles), brick stacks (some rendered). Two windows per house, original cambered openings with plain raised surrounds to Nos 23, 24 and three left-hand houses. Sash windows remain to No 23 and left-hand group only, small-pane glazing to No 28. Wide later margins to openings of rendered houses. Central doorways, mostly altered.
Interior
Interiors planned with turning stone stairs flanking chimney-breast in thick party walls.
Reason for designation
The longest industrial terrace now remaining in largely unaltered condition in the communities of Merthyr and Park. (Nos 11 to 21 Williamstown adjoin at angle to S).
Nearby in the register
- 23 Cyfartha RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 24 Cyfartha RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- GrawenDomesticunder 1 mi
- 25 Cyfartha RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.