Fedw Arian

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

The building is a refined two-and-a-half storey terrace of 8 houses constructed in good quality red brick with buff sandstone dressings to the facade and sides, 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 are present, those to the far right (nos 1 and 2) being rendered.

The terrace is symmetrical and conceived as an overall composition of 18 bays. Four paired bays to the centre and ends are advanced (bays 1, 5 & 7, 9 & 11, 15). The centre pairs have large segmental pedimented gables with rolled leaded roofs and projecting sandstone ashlar quoins, whilst the outer pairs have hipped slated roofs with similar quoins. The outer advanced pairs each have two elegant sash windows to ground and first floors—18 panes to the ground floor and 12 panes to the first floor—with flat arches featuring fine brick voussoirs and geometric stone keys. The central advanced pairs 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 entrances as before. The remaining ground-floor bays (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13) have canted bay windows with 18-pane central sashes and 12-pane flanking sashes, with shaped, moulded parapets to flat roofs, keystones and voussoirs as before. The attic floor has 8 large, flat-roofed dormers, each with a 16-pane casement.

The rear elevation is roughcast with segmentally-arched 12-pane sashes (22 to the first floor) and 8 slate-hung dormers. Each unit has a ground-floor rear entrance giving access to 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.

The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.