Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St Tydfil's Hospital: Entrance Block (Centre Part Only)
Town, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Town, Merthyr Tydfil, designated on 13 January 1988.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Health and Welfare
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1988
- Community
- Town
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74794, -3.37589
- Cadw reference
- 11475
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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)
Cadw's description
Location
Set to rear of railed forecourt with drive leading diagonally to plain opening in right-hand range. Union Place approaches on left.
History
Dated 1870. Originally built as part of the Merthyr Union Workhouse (first built 1853).
Exterior
Decorated Gothic style. 2-storey gabled range coming forward, snecked rubble facings, freestone dressings, slate roof with ventilator. Kneelered parapet to gable with finial and date-panel. Large 4-light traceried window with ogee quatrefoils, cusping, crenellated transom etc under segmented head; dripmould with headstops. Upper floor corbelled out with freestone dressing linked to bold 3-light ground floor window with rectangular dripmould, foliage stops and carved spandrels. Right return front with 2-light window over 3-light, details as before.
Left return with similar upper window over gabled porch forward from 2-storey Tudor-style block (facing Union Place); gabled wing with apex chimney forward on outer left. Slate roofs, sash windows in chamfered reveals, pointed doorway under Gothic fanlight.
Rear elevation similar with 2-window gabled cross-range, traceried 2-light windows as before. Attached S range not included.
Nearby in the register
- Statue & Plinth to Sir W.T. LewisCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Trengrove HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 13A New Castle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 13 New Castle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.