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. Almshouses.
Llewellyn Almshouses, including Boundary Walls
- WRENN ID
- mired-cornice-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 January 1989
- Type
- Almshouses
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Llewellyn Almshouses comprise a linear range of eight cottages arranged in pairs, with a two-story central cross range forming a common room and warden’s cottage. Constructed in red brick and half timber with red sandstone dressings, the almshouses date to 1897, as indicated by an escutcheon with the letters "L 1897 AD" and a family crest on the left end stack.
The architectural style is characterised by deep verges and billet-moulded bargeboards with pendants. The central, gabled cross range has a tile-hung gable end, while the half-timbered first floor is jettied on brackets, exposing joists and incorporating tall panels with four-light windows featuring rectangular lead cames and decorative panels. A rectangular sandstone bay window is situated on the ground floor, adorned with a casement moulded band and animals. The windows incorporate four-light cusped transomed panel tracery with lead cames and heraldic glass. Each pair of cottages is topped by a pair of gabled half-timbered dormers. The gable ends are close studded to the inner pairs and feature decorative framing to the outer ones, with billet-moulded bressumers on ogee brackets with carved corbels and exposed joints. Windows are four-light, cusped, and panel tracery with returned stopped labels and lead cames. Recessed entrance bays under the main roof form porches, featuring single-light windows, lead cames, and original plank, glazed panel doors with original fittings.
The rear elevations exhibit a simpler tripartite arrangement to each pair of cottages, consisting of a narrow rectangular window and door flanking a broader, ogee-headed window, connected by a continuous label. The sashes are half-glazed, and 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 enclose the rear and right end. Iron railings are set upon low walls supported by stone-capped piers along Gnoll Park Road. Former privies and coal sheds along the rear wall have been removed. The layout of the grounds to the front of the almshouses remains as per the original design.
Internally, the cross range has been largely modernised, while the cottages retain features such as recessed inglenooks with fire windows, panelled over-mantels, Tudor arched chimney pieces, beamed ceilings, built-in dressers, and panelled walls.
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