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
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 January 1989
Type
Almshouses
Source
Cadw listing

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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 with half-timbering and red sandstone dressings. The end elevations feature projecting stacks, with the stack on the left bearing an escutcheon displaying the letters "L 1897 AD" and a family crest.

The central cross range has gabled projections, deep verges, billet-moulded bargeboards, and pendants. The gable end is tile-hung. The half-timbered first floor 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 located on the ground floor, featuring a casement moulded band with animals. The window contains four-light cusped transomed panel tracery 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. The gables are close studded to the inner pairs, with decorative framing to the outer ones, billet-moulded bressumers on ogee brackets with carved corbels, and exposed joints. The windows are four-light cusped panel tracery with returned stopped labels and lead cames. Recessed entrance bays, sheltered by the eaves of the main roof, form porches. Single-light windows and original plank doors with glazed panels and lead cames are found on the sides, retaining original fittings.

The rear elevations are simpler in design, 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. The windows are sashes, with half-glazed doors. The first floor of the cross range is tile-hung and has 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 to 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, beamed ceilings, built-in dressers, and panelling to most walls.

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