Llewellyn Almshouses, including Boundary Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1989. School.
Llewellyn Almshouses, including Boundary Walls
- WRENN ID
- lesser-alcove-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 January 1989
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- SS 759 978
- Coordinates
- 51.66567, -3.79564
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Llewellyn Almshouses comprise a linear range of eight cottages arranged in reflected pairs, with a two-storey central cross range serving as a common room and warden’s cottage. The buildings are constructed of red brick and half-timbering, with red sandstone dressings. The right end elevation features a projecting stack bearing an escutcheon displaying the letters "L 1897 AD" and a family crest.
The central cross range has a gabled, projecting design with deep verges and billet-moulded bargeboards with pendants. One gable end is tile-hung. The first floor of the half-timbered sections is jettied on brackets, with exposed joists. Tall panels incorporate four-light windows with rectangular lead cames and over-square decorated panels. A rectangular sandstone bay window is present on the ground floor, featuring a casement moulded band with animals, a four-light cusped transomed panel tracery window with lead cames and heraldic glass. Each pair of cottages has a pair of gabled half-timbered dormers. The roofs are red tile with deep verges and billet-moulded bargeboards and pendants. The gable ends are close studded to the inner pairs of cottages, with decorative framing to the outer ones. Bressumers are billet moulded on ogee brackets with carved corbels, showing exposed joints. Four-light cusped panel tracery windows have returned stop-chamfered labels, lead cames. Entrance bays are recessed under the main roof to form porches, with single-light windows, lead cames, and doors to the sides. The original plank doors feature glazed panels with lead cames, along with original fittings.
The rear elevations are simpler, featuring a paired tripartite arrangement to each pair of cottages – a narrow rectangular window and door flank a broader, ogee-headed window, united by a continuous label. Sashes and half-glazed doors are present. The first floor of the cross range is tile-hung, with a bipartite sash window. A single-storey, red-brick gabled extension with a red tile roof and bargeboards is also present.
High, contemporary brick boundary walls with tile capping run along the rear and right end. Iron railings are set upon low walls with stone-capped piers along Gnoll Park Road. Former privies and coal sheds along the rear wall have been removed. The layout of the grounds at the front of the almshouses remains as per the original design.
Internally, the cross range has been largely modernised. The cottages retain recessed inglenooks with fire windows, panelled over-mantels, Tudor-arched chimney pieces, and beamed ceilings. Built-in dressers are also present, and most cottages retain panelled walls.
Local climate
Llewellyn Almshouses, including Boundary Walls sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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