Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No. 50, including T.I.Griffiths Grocery
Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 2 April 1996
- Locality
- Tynewydd
- Community
- Treherbert
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67809, -3.54522
- Cadw reference
- 17838
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
Shop with dwelling above, one of a row located on S side of Wyndham Street.
History
Built before 1919, as shown on 1919 OS map. Shown as end of terrace at that date, but structural evidence indicates that it was formerly mid terrace or that the terrace was not completed.
Exterior
Two storey shop premises with dwelling above, upper elevation of coursed local sandstone blocks with snecked faces. Two windows with modern frames in original openings retaining single stone slab sills and voussoir lintels. Plate-glass front with doorway set back, and doorway to house on the left side. Broad, panelled pilasters to shop and house door carry bracketed end stops of fascia and cornice. Cornice is lightly moulded; fascia has replaced painted inscription. Plate-glass front with slender corner ¾ mullions.The double shop doors have panelling in the lower haves, glazed upper, and a rectangular overlight. Stallboard of green encaustic tiles, painted black. The doorway has black and white tiles laid in diaper fashion. The door to the house is set within a shallow, panelled porch. The door is panelled, with a rectangular overlight.
Interior
The interior retains many of its original fittings including shelving and counters.
Reason for designation
Listed for the special interest of the shopfront which is an unaltered typical Edwardian example in Treherbert and notwithstanding modern alterations to the upper windows.
Nearby in the register
- Tynewydd Farm HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bethany Chapel, including area gate piers and railingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- War Memorial and surrounding Railings and GatesCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Brynfedwen HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.