Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lower Row
Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 November 2002
- Locality
- Dowlais
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Community
- Dowlais
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76554, -3.35012
- Cadw reference
- 27085
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
Situated on the E end of Lower Row at its junction with the road leading to Upper Row.
History
Mid C19 corner house of industrial workers terraced housing. Originally many terraces in the Dowlais and Penydarren areas ended in a curved corner house, this is the least altered survivor.
Exterior
Corner house, unpainted roughcast with slate curved close-eaved roof. Two-storeys with one-window range and door to Lower Row, one-window range on corner. The upper windows are boarded over, the lower ones have C20 12-pane glazing. Windows and C20 half-glazed door have plain raised surrounds. Thick stone sills to ground floor windows, thinner above.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as the best surviving example of the curved corner-houses of the industrial workers' terraces in Dowlais.
Nearby in the register
- Industrial building at former Ivor WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former Guest Memorial LibraryRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Stables HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dowlais Works StablesIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.