Awelfryn

Awelfryn, Nos 1-15 Arenig Street (odd), is a highly accomplished Edwardian terrace built in 1909 in English baroque style. The listing includes the forecourt walls and railings, and associated yard walls and outbuildings to the rear.

The terrace comprises 8 refined two-and-a-half storey houses of brick construction. The facades and sides are built in good quality red brickwork with buff sandstone dressings. The rear elevation retains its original roughcast treatment. The roof is a continuous hipped slate roof with feathered, oversailing eaves featuring wooden dentilated treatment. There are 5 chimneys with sandstone cappings; the chimneys to the far right (nos 1 and 2) are rendered. The hoppers are dated.

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

The outer advanced bays each contain 2 elegant sash windows to the ground and first floors. The ground floor sashes have 18 panes and the first floor 12 panes, with flat arches, fine brick voussoirs, and geometric stone keys. The central advanced bays have similar first-floor windows and paired 4-panel doors with rectangular overlights to the ground floor. The recessed end bays (1 & 5) have similar first-floor windows with entrance doors as before. 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, topped with shaped and moulded parapets to flat roofs, with keystones and voussoirs. The attic floor is lit by 8 large flat-roofed dormers, each with a 16-pane casement.

The rear elevation is roughcast with segmentally-arched 12-pane sashes; 22 such windows light the first floor. The rear also features 8 slate-hung dormers matching those at the front. Each unit has a ground-floor rear entrance accessing a small brick-walled yard with boarded entrance and a wash-house or coal store block to the rear; one such block is shared between two units.

The terrace retains its original low brick forecourt walls to the front, surmounted by iron railings and gates in Art Nouveau style.