Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Constitutional Club
Neath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Neath, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 5 January 1989.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Recreational
- Date of designation
- 5 January 1989
- Community
- Neath
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66273, -3.80333
- Cadw reference
- 11817
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the street line next to St David’s Church.
History
Late C19 gothic.
Exterior
Two storey and attic 5 window front. Patterned brick facings.
Steeply pitched slate roof, hopped to corner. Yellow brick eaves band, machiolated effect. Original decorative ironwork rainwater goods. Four gabled dormers, tile cresting and finials. Deep verges, bargeboards form pointed arches. Modern glazing. Two similar to side elevation.
Recessed panels house first floor windows, machiolated effect to top. Polychrome brickwork, pointed arches and continuous impost band. Two light windows below tropartite cusped lights to tympani with lead cames. Deep, moulded yellow brick sills bands with paterae, string course. Pentagonal bartizan oriel window to right corner; similar detail, spirelet with ironwork finial. Freestone decorated tracery, lead cames, moulded bracket on angular brick shaft with freestone corbel.
Stilted arches to ground floor windows, polychrome arches, continuous impost and sill bands. Sashes, 6 small panes to upper sash, stone sills. Rectangular porch to centre. First floor will band forms parapet bearing lettering CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB. Pointed polychrome 2 order arch with colonettes. Quatrefoils to spandrels bearing crown to left and mitre to right, stilted arches to sash windows on sides. Panelled inner doors.
Similar detail to front on 2 window elevation to right end, but first floor windows paired in single recess.
Reason for designation
Group value with Gwyn Hall and St David’s Church.
Nearby in the register
- Parish Church of St DavidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gwyn HallRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Pedestal & Bronze Statue of Howell GwynCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- D S MorganCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.