Si-yr-Afon

Si-yr-Afon: Nos 1-7 Club Street (Benefit Society Cottages)

This range of cottages divides into two sections. Nos 1-4 form a continuously-roofed block, while nos 5-7 are stepped up and adjoining, creating a symmetrical group of three. Each unit is set back slightly 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 unit.

Nos 1 to 4 form a reflected composition. The central pair of units, 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. The entrance to no 2 retains its original 6-panel door with rectangular overlight; the other doors are modern, with that to no 1 boarded. The ground floor windows are the 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 from a late 19th or early 20th century shop alteration. The first floor windows are set 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 a two-window front with central entrance and a stringcourse above the first-floor windows. In the gable apex is a recessed dedication plaque with returned label. 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 the ground-floor windows and outer entrances; both have modern doors and glazing, with plain sashes to the upper floor.

With the exception of no 2, which retains its small sash windows to the rear, each unit has modern rear extensions. The extension to no 7 is particularly large and storeyed.