Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gwyn Hall
Neath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
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
- 51.66276, -3.80411
- Cadw reference
- 11829
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
Prominent building set back from the road midway along the street.
History
1887-1889 by John Norton of London costing £6,000 on a site donated by Howel Gwyn.
Exterior
Gothic, 2 storey, 7 bay structure. Snecked masonry, ashlar dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof. Raking shouldered gable parapets. Ashlar grouped flue stalks to end chimneys. Plain eaves band. Advanced stair turrets to outer bays. Left hand turret rises to eaves with tall pyramidic roof. Stressed ashlar quoins. Three stepped lancets under continuous hoodmoulds to top storey, moulded first floor band. Similar lancets without hoodmoulds to ground floor. Right hand turret gabled with apex at eaves of main building. Gable parapet on kneelers. Three lancets under continuous hoodmould, sill band. Three stepped lancets to ground floor. Pointed doorways to inner flanks.
Interior
Depressed arched decorated windows to first floor of 5 centre bays. Transomed, cusped lights. Gabled stepped buttresses. (Unsympathetic modern gallery obscures 3 windows on right).
Arcade to ground floor. Formerly with glazed lean-to roof. Miniature arcading to parapet. Five pointed arches on squat cast iron fluted Corinthian columns.
Pierced trefoils to spandrels. Three stilted arched windows to ground floor, behind arcade. Mullioned and transomed, 2 unsympathetically converted to doorways.
Outer bays behind arcade have pointed arched doorways, blind tympani, panelled doors.
Blocked, tall 5 transomed light window to left end elevation. Sympathetic modern additions to rear elevation.
Reason for designation
Included for townscape value.
Nearby in the register
- Constitutional ClubRecreationalunder 1 mi
- D S MorganCommercialunder 1 mi
- 23 Green StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Masonic TempleInstitutionalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.