Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
169 Broadway
Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 4 February 1980
- Locality
- Treforest
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Community
- Pontypridd
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.59687, -3.32981
- Cadw reference
- 24906
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
History
A piecemeal development begun in the second quarter of the C19, probably mainly corresponding with the enlargement of the Treforest Tinplate Works in 1835. Nos 161-72 are shown on the 1846 Tithe map, while Nos 172-6 were probably added soon after. Most of the houses are double-fronted with 2 ground floor rooms and winding stone stairs, a type characteristic of early C19 S Wales. At the S end, No 161 is larger and may have been a foreman's house, while Nos 162-4 were probably originally pairs of back-to-back single-unit dwellings, a type not well documented in S Wales.
Exterior
A double fronted house with stone segmental-headed openings to the lower storey and lintels beneath the eaves. The roof is replaced with synthetic slates and retains a brick stack to the L.
Reason for designation
Nos 161-176 are listed, notwithstanding modern alteration, for their social-historical interest as the most instructive surviving example of early-mid C19 workmen's houses in Pontypridd.
Nearby in the register
- 168 BroadwayDomesticunder 1 mi
- 170 BroadwayDomesticunder 1 mi
- 167 BroadwayDomesticunder 1 mi
- 171 BroadwayDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.