Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Upper Abercanaid House
Troed-y-Rhiw, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 August 1975
- Locality
- Upper Abercanaid
- Community
- Troed-y-Rhiw
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.72914, -3.37422
- Cadw reference
- 11494
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
Located in Upper Abercanaid just W of Quay Row and the former Glamorganshire canal.
History
Mid C19 detached villa associated with the nearby collieries such as Glyndyrys Pit, sunk between 1820 and 1840. The 1850 Tithe map shows the area to be owned by Thomas Thomas. The house was the birthplace of William Thomas Lewis, later Lord Merthyr, one of the last of the 'coal barons'. House split into two in late C20 and left side, now Llys Canaid much altered.
Exterior
House, painted stucco with slate hipped roof and flanking stuccoed stacks, the left one removed since 1975. Deep eaves with paired brackets to front elevation, plain elsewhere.
Two-storey, three-window front of 16-pane horned sashes with centre door, but sashes in left bay (Llys Canaid) replaced by C20 windows. Thin raised surrounds with shoulders and keystones. Arched doorway with traceried fanlight under shallow-gabled timber hood on ornate timber brackets. Door is 6-panel with 4 glazed and bottom two panels shaped. Raised quoins and first floor band.
Left side, Llys Canaid, has no windows and large C20 flat-roofed NW extension. Right side has 2 arched windows to ground floor right with C20 glazing and one C20 first floor window to right of centre.
Rear has 3 C20 upper windows, and 2 to ground floor with lean-to to left.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included despite alterations as a substantial industrialist's house significantly positioned amid the workers' housing of Upper Abercanaid.
Nearby in the register
- 5 Quay RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Quay RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden walls and gatepiers at Upper Abercanaid HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Quay RowDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.