Former Preswylfa Childrens Home is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 February 1987. Hospital. 5 related planning applications.

Former Preswylfa Childrens Home

WRENN ID
western-pewter-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Constituency
Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 February 1987
Type
Hospital
Address
Former Preswylfa Childrens Home, 12 Merthyr Mawr Road, CF31 3NH
OS grid reference
SS 901 787
Coordinates
51.49737, -3.58454
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is an Arts and Crafts style former children's home, dating from the early 20th century. It is a single-unit, asymmetrical building with a three-window front. The exterior is built of rubble stone with a bull-nosed design. The front features a first floor with outer windows that extend upwards through the overhanging eaves, each with a dormer-style roof. The roof is hipped and tiled, featuring a ridge cresting and finials, with brick-capped rubble chimney stacks. A plinth and freestone window dressings are present.

A central two-storey and attic bay is advanced and gable-ended, with flanking cross roofs – one gabled to the right and one hipped to the left. The windows are mainly paired sash windows. A lean-to porch is located on the return angle of the central bay. The right end is half-hipped, and the left end has a cross gable, with similar detailing to the rear, including a low central extension.

The building was noted to be in poor condition during an inspection in April 1986.

Local climate

Former Preswylfa Childrens Home sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
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