Dolydd

Dolydd is a highly accomplished Edwardian terrace built in 1909 in English baroque style. The hoppers are dated.

The building comprises eight houses arranged as a refined two-and-a-half storey terrace. It is constructed of good quality red brick to the facade and sides, with buff sandstone dressings and original roughcast treatment to the rear elevation. A continuous hipped slate roof with feathered, oversailing eaves features wooden dentilated treatment. Five chimneys with sandstone cappings rise from the roof; those to the far right (serving nos 1 and 2) are rendered.

The terrace is symmetrical and conceived as an overall composition of 18 bays. Four pairs of bays are advanced at the centre and ends (bays 1, 5 & 7, 9 & 11, 15), each with projecting sandstone ashlar quoins. The centre pairs feature large segmental pedimented gables with rolled leaded roofs, whilst the outer pairs have hipped slated roofs.

The outer advanced pairs each contain two elegant sash windows to the ground and first floors, comprising 18 panes to the ground and 12 panes to the first, with flat arches, fine brick voussoirs and geometric stone keys. The central advanced pairs have similar first-floor windows, with paired 4-panel doors and rectangular overlights to the ground floor. The recessed end bays (1 & 5) have similar first-floor windows with matching entrances. The remaining ground-floor bays (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13) contain canted bay windows with 18-pane central sashes and 12-pane flanking sashes, all featuring shaped, moulded parapets to flat roofs, keystones and voussoirs. The attic floor has eight large flat-roofed dormers, each with a 16-pane casement.

The rear elevation is roughcast with segmentally-arched 12-pane sashes; 22 sashes appear to the first floor and eight slate-hung dormers match those on the front elevation. Each unit has a ground-floor rear entrance accessing a small brick-walled yard with boarded entrance and a wash-house/coal store block to the rear; one such block is shared between two units.

The terrace retains its original low brick forecourt walls with surmounting iron railings and gates in Art Nouveau style. The listing includes associated yard walls and outbuildings to the rear. The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.