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
stubborn-threshold-coral
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 pairs, with a two-storey central cross range that serves as a common room and warden’s cottage. The building is constructed of red brick and half timber with red sandstone dressings. The right-hand end elevation features a projecting stack bearing an escutcheon displaying the letters "L 1897 AD" and a family crest.

The central cross range is gabled, with deep verges, billet-moulded bargeboards, and pendant detailing. One gable end is tile hung. The half-timbered first floor of the cottages is jettied on brackets, exposing the underlying joists. Tall panels incorporate four-light windows with rectangular lead cames, over square decorated panels. A rectangular sandstone bay window is located on the ground floor, featuring a casement moulded band with animal carvings. This window contains four-light, cusped transomed panel tracery, lead cames, and inset heraldic glass.

Each pair of cottages is topped with a pair of gabled half-timbered dormers. The roofs are tiled with deep verges and billet-moulded bargeboards. The gable ends are close studded to the inner pairs of cottages, with decorative framing to the outer ones. Bressumers are billet moulded and supported on ogee brackets with carved corbels, and joints are exposed. The windows are four-light, cusped panel tracery with returned stopped labels and lead cames. Entrance bays are recessed under the main roof’s eaves, creating porches with single-light windows, lead cames, and original plank doors with glazed panels and cames, 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 are flanked by a broader, ogee-headed window, with a continuous label above. The rear elevations include sashes and half-glazed doors. The first floor of the cross range is tile hung, with a bipartite sash window. A single-storey, gabled red brick extension with a red tile roof and bargeboards is also present.

High, contemporary brick boundary walls with tile capping surround the rear and right end of the property. Iron railings are set upon low walls with stone-capped piers along Gnoll Park Road. Former privies and coal sheds that ran 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 panelled walls.

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