Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
4-8 Church Street
Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 17 July 1990
- Locality
- Pontypridd
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Community
- Pontypridd
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.60197, -3.34119
- Cadw reference
- 13522
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
Opposite Pontypridd Market.
History
Built by the Co-operative Retail Society in a simplified classical style with Art Deco influence on a grid pattern, characteristic of the 1920s.
Reason for designation
Listed for architectural interest as a good design in inter-war classicism, and for group value with the Old Market Hall, Market Chambers and The Arcade.
Nearby in the register
- 7 Church StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 8 Church StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Lloyds TSB Bank, Market Square branchCommercialunder 1 mi
- 9 Church StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.