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

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Description

Gwyn Hall is a Gothic-style building that dates back to the 19th century. It is a two-storey structure with seven bays, constructed from snecked masonry with ashlar dressings. The building features a steeply pitched slate roof and raking shouldered gable parapets. At each end, there are ashlar grouped flue stalks on the chimneys and a plain eaves band. The outer bays have advanced stair turrets, with the left turret rising to the eaves and topped with a tall pyramidic roof. The building has stressed ashlar quoins and three stepped lancets on the top storey, which are set under continuous hoodmoulds, along with a moulded band at the first floor. The ground floor also has similar lancets, but without hoodmoulds. The right-hand turret is gabled, with its apex at the eaves of the main building, and features a gable parapet on kneelers. It has three lancets under a continuous hoodmould and a sill band, along with three stepped lancets on the ground floor. There are pointed doorways on the inner flanks.

On the first floor, the five central bays have depressed arched decorated windows with transomed, cusped lights and gabled stepped buttresses. However, a modern gallery obscures three windows on the right side. The ground floor has an arcade that was formerly covered by a glazed lean-to roof, featuring miniature arcading at the parapet and five pointed arches supported by squat cast iron fluted Corinthian columns. The spandrels are pierced with trefoils. Behind the arcade, there are three stilted arched windows on the ground floor, which are mullioned and transomed, though two have been unsympathetically converted into doorways.

The outer bays behind the arcade have pointed arched doorways with blind tympani and panelled doors. There is a blocked tall window with five transomed lights on the left end elevation, and the rear elevation has sympathetic modern additions.

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