Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Rectory
Town, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1988
- Locality
- Thomastown
- Community
- Town
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74617, -3.37423
- Cadw reference
- 11429
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
Detached T-plan house set on hillside with road curving forward from right above.
History
Shown on 1850 Tithe Map of Merthyr Tydfil.
Exterior
2-storey, 3-bay Regency stucco front with narrow recessed centre bay, hipped slate roof with wide boxed eaves. Sash windows in plain reveals, tripartites to ground-floor with cornices on voeute brackets. Modern centre doorway in glazed surround. Rear wing in similar style with original small-pane sashes.
Nearby in the register
- Sunny BankDomesticunder 1 mi
- Springfield VillaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bryn HeulogDomesticunder 1 mi
- Merthyr Christian CentreReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.