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Primrose Hill

Town, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Thomastown, Town, Merthyr Tydfil, designated on 22 August 1975.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Primrose Hill, Town, Merthyr Tydfil, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Domestic
Date of designation
22 August 1975
Locality
Thomastown
Community
Town
Unitary authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.74705, -3.37482
Cadw reference
11425

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 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)
  • 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Detached house at top end of Church Street where the road turns at right-angles into Bryntirion Road.

Early to mid C19.

3-storey, 3-bay cement-rendered elevation, ground-floor rusticated. Hipped tiled roof. Smaller pivot windows without glazing bars to second-floor; sashes with glazing bars to lower floors. Simplified pilastered doorcase with modern door and fanlight. Small enclosed forecourt with right-hand gatepiers.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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