Ger-y-Lli

Ger-y-Lli: Nos 1-7 Club Street (Benefit Society Cottages)

This range of seven cottages is divided into two distinct sections. Nos 1-4 form a continuously-roofed block, while nos 5-7 are stepped up and adjoining to create a symmetrical group of three. Each unit sits slightly set back from the road behind a forecourt garden.

The buildings are constructed of coursed, roughly-dressed stone with slate roofs and tiled ridges. Simple end chimneys define each individual unit.

Nos 1-4 form a reflected composition. The central pair, nos 2 and 3, each have two windows on both floors with central entrances. The outer units, nos 1 and 4, have single windows with entrances to the left. No 2's entrance retains its original 6-panel door with rectangular overlight; the other doors are modern, with no 1's door boarded. The ground floor windows are original 12-pane casements with intersecting wooden tracery heads and returned slatestone labels above slate lintels. The right ground floor window to no 3 is modern, set in an enlarged opening resulting from a late 19th or early 20th-century shop alteration. The first floor windows are under the eaves and are original 12-pane sashes with projecting sills.

Nos 5-7 form a symmetrical group with no 6 (Si-yr-Afon) advanced to the centre beneath a wide gable. This unit has two windows to the front with a central entrance and a stringcourse above the first-floor windows. A recessed dedication plaque with returned label sits in the gable apex. The ground and first floor windows here are enlarged and modern, with plaster architraves, as is the door. Nos 5 and 7 are single-window units with returned labels to their ground-floor windows and outer entrances; both have modern doors and glazing, with plain sashes to the upper floor.

Apart from no 2, which retains small sash windows to the rear, all units have modern rear extensions. No 7's extension is particularly substantial, being a large storeyed addition.