Harley's Almhouses is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. A Victorian Almshouses.
Harley's Almhouses
- WRENN ID
- slow-stone-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1988
- Type
- Almshouses
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Harley's Almshouses are a group of 12 almshouses built in 1836, with a heightening in the center completed in 1927. They are set back from the road behind a grassed forecourt and a lower rubble wall at the front. The almshouses are primarily single-storey, except for Nos. 6 and 7, which are two-storey with one window front. The buildings are constructed of coursed rubble with a plinth and feature a slate roof with overhanging eaves and brick chimney stacks set diagonally, with the center stacks being taller. Nos. 6 and 7 have a two-window pebbledash gable.
The windows and door openings have voussoir lintels and are fitted with paired casement windows that have diamond leaded glazing and boarded shutters with C-shaped fastenings, along with boarded doors. There are slated lean-to hoods over the doors, which are twinned except for the end houses. The 1927 addition features casement windows, a crucifix above the datestone, and a coat of arms set in a diamond recess. A modern tablet below the datestone is inscribed: "Harley Almshouses, these almshouses were built and endowed by Frances Harley in memory of her Sister Martha Harley of Trebarried in 1836, they were modernised in 1974." The rear of the building has modern windows and a lean-to structure at the center.
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