Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Town, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1988
- Locality
- Pontmorlais
- Community
- Town
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.75010, -3.37662
- Cadw reference
- 11447
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
At main road junction, Pontmorlais Circus, with canted frontage facing uphill to Penydarren and across to Pontmorlais West.
History
Early to mid C19 (shown on 1851 Board of Health map).
Exterior
2 storeys, 4+3 windows, stucco; slate roof splayed round corner. Twin dormers with bargeboards on right, central brick stack. Heavily moulded architraves with lion-mask keyblocks to sash windows. Splayed shopfront with boxed-in fascia, end volute brackets, recessed door with Victorian curved glazing, ornamented overdoor. Modern brick right gable.
Nearby in the register
- Guard Rail & Steps at Merthyr Tydfil War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Merthyr Tydfil War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- District Education Office of Mid-Glamorgan County Council (YMCA)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Thespian House at Theatre RoyalDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.