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. Church.

Llewellyn Almshouses, including Boundary Walls

WRENN ID
proud-solder-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 January 1989
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Llewellyn Almshouses consist of 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. Constructed in red brick and half timber with red sandstone dressings, the almshouses demonstrate group value through their contribution to the area. The end elevation to the left features a projecting stack displaying an escutcheon with the letters "L 1897 AD" and a family crest.

The central cross range has a gabled design with deep verges and billet moulded bargeboards with pendants. A tile hung gable end is also present. The first floor of the half-timbered cottages is jettied on brackets, displaying exposed joists. Tall panels incorporate four-light windows with rectangular lead cames and over-square decorated panels. A rectangular sandstone bay window on the ground floor has a casement moulded band containing animals. The windows feature a 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 red tile roofs have deep verges and billet moulded bargeboards with pendants. Framing details vary, with close-studded gables to the inner pairs and decorative framing to the outer ones. Bressumers are billet moulded on ogee brackets with carved corbels, showing exposed joints. The windows are four-light cusped panel tracery with returned stopped labels and lead cames. Entrance bays are recessed under the main roof to form porches, featuring single-light windows, lead cames, doors to the sides, stone architraves, original plank doors with glazed panels and lead cames, and original fittings.

The rear elevations are simpler, with a paired, tripartite arrangement to each pair of cottages – a narrow rectangular window and door are flanked by a broader, ogee-headed window, all under a continuous label. These feature sashes and half-glazed doors. The first floor of the cross range is tile hung and features 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 sit atop low stone-capped piers along Gnoll Park Road. Former privies and coal sheds that were located along the rear wall have been removed. The grounds at the front of the almshouses retain their original layout.

Internally, the cross range has largely been modernized. 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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