Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Miskin Arms
Pont-y-Clun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Recreational
- Date of designation
- 15 August 2000
- Locality
- Miskin
- Town
- Pontyclun
- Community
- Pont-y-Clun
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.51865, -3.37581
- Cadw reference
- 23926
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
In the centre of the village, to the W of the church, at the junction of School Road and Hensol Road.
History
Built in the third quarter of the C19 and first mentioned in 1871.
Exterior
A 3-bay public house of 2 storeys with attic, with walls rendered and painted cream, and slate roof with a brick stack to the R and taller rendered stack to the L. A central half-glazed panelled door has a plain overlight. The outer bays in the lower storey have tripartite sash windows. A continuous lean-to canopy to the lower storey is carried on wooden posts with stone bases and has a slate roof. The upper storey has 12-pane hornless sash windows. The R gable end has 2 hornless sashes in the upper storey and a round-headed sash window to the attic. A hipped lean-to is added to the lower storey to the R of which is an added doorway with half-lit double doors.
Behind is a lower gabled wing at right angles, of whitewashed rubble and slate roof. A full-height opening R of centre has a boarded door, L of which is a sash window. A small lean-to is further L with small window below the eaves upper L.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for the architectural interest of its well-preserved front, and for group value with Miskin war memorial and church, creating a strong visual focus to the village centre.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone Call-boxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Miskin War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Church of St DavidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Chapel HouseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.