Gwyn Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1989. Theatre.

Gwyn Hall

WRENN ID
seventh-pilaster-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 January 1989
Type
Theatre
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Gothic, 2 storey, 7 bay structure. Snecked masonry, ashlar dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof. Raking shouldered gable parapets. Ashlar grouped flue stalks to end chimneys. Plain eaves band. Advanced stair turrets to outer bays. Left hand turret rises to eaves with tall pyramidic roof. Stressed ashlar quoins. Three stepped lancets under continuous hoodmoulds to top storey, moulded first floor band. Similar lancets without hoodmoulds to ground floor. Right hand turret gabled with apex at eaves of main building. Gable parapet on kneelers. Three lancets under continuous hoodmould, sill band. Three stepped lancets to ground floor. Pointed doorways to inner flanks.

Depressed arched decorated windows to first floor of 5 centre bays. Transomed, cusped lights. Gabled stepped buttresses. (Unsympathetic modern gallery obscures 3 windows on right).

Arcade to ground floor. Formerly with glazed lean-to roof. Miniature arcading to parapet. Five pointed arches on squat cast iron fluted Corinthian columns.

Pierced trefoils to spandrels. Three stilted arched windows to ground floor, behind arcade. Mullioned and transomed, 2 unsympathetically converted to doorways.

Outer bays behind arcade have pointed arched doorways, blind tympani, panelled doors.

Blocked, tall 5 transomed light window to left end elevation. Sympathetic modern additions to rear elevation.

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