Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 Coedcae'r Court
Town, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1988
- Locality
- Twynyrodyn
- Community
- Town
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74389, -3.37468
- Cadw reference
- 11434
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
Short terrace of 4 industrial workers’ houses at crest of the slope; built-up terrace to front of No 6 on left.
History
Shown on 1836 Survey Plan of Merthyr.
Exterior
Simple rubble 2-storey painted fronts, slate roofs with rendered end stacks, weathercourses. Single window fronts except for No 6 with 2 windows; deep sills, slightly arched heads, partly altered glazing and doors ((one surviving sash window to boarded-up centre houses).
Interior
Timber L-plan stairs to rear corners of interiors.
Reason for designation
Extremely scarce surviving example of earlier industrial housing in Town and Park Communities.
Nearby in the register
- 9 Coedcae'r CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- 7 Coedcae'r CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Coedcae'r CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Zion Chapel (Capel Seion)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.