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
forbidden-bastion-merlin
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
Almshouses
OS grid reference
SS 758 978
Coordinates
51.66583, -3.79609
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Llewellyn Almshouses consist of a linear range of eight cottages arranged in reflected pairs, with a two-storey, central cross range incorporating a common room and warden’s cottage. The buildings are constructed from red brick with half-timbering and red sandstone dressings. The end elevations feature projecting stacks, the left-hand stack bearing an escutcheon displaying the letters "L 1897 AD" and a family crest.

The central cross range is gabled, with deep verges and billet-moulded bargeboards, some of which are pendant. One gable end is tile hung. The first floor of the half-timbered section is jettied on brackets, revealing exposed joists. Tall panels feature four-light windows with rectangular lead cames; these incorporate over-square decorated panels. A rectangular sandstone bay window sits on the ground floor, adorned with a casement moulded band and sculpted animals. The windows feature four-light cusped tracery panels with lead cames and heraldic glass.

Pairs of cottages are each topped with a pair of gabled half-timbered dormers. The red tile roofs have deep verges and billet-moulded bargeboards with pendants. The gables are close studded in the inner pairs, with decorative framing to the outer ones. Bressumers are billet-moulded and sit on ogee brackets with carved corbels, revealing exposed joints. Windows are four-light, cusped, panel tracery, with returned stopped labels set in lead cames. Entrance bays are recessed under the main roof to create porches, featuring single-light windows with lead cames and original plank doors with glazed panels and lead cames. Original fittings remain.

The rear elevations are simpler, with a paired tripartite arrangement for each pair of cottages, consisting of a narrow rectangular window and door flank broadened by an ogee-headed window, united by a continuous label. Sash windows and half-glazed doors are present. 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 extend to the rear and right end. Iron railings are set on low walls, supported by stone-capped piers facing Gnoll Park Road. Former privies and coal sheds along the rear wall have been removed. The landscaping of the grounds to the front of the almshouses remains according to 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.

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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