Former Truck Shop Tondu Ironworks now Foxtroy Residential Home is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 November 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Former Truck Shop Tondu Ironworks now Foxtroy Residential Home
- WRENN ID
- fallen-gravel-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Former Truck Shop Tondu Ironworks now Foxtroy Residential Home, 25 Derllwyn Road, Ynysawdre, CF32 9HD
- OS grid reference
- SS 890 845
- Coordinates
- 51.54914, -3.60215
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former Truck Shop at Tondu Ironworks, now known as Foxtroy Residential Home, is a building constructed from coursed ironstone rubble with notable tooled ashlar dressings. It features a Welsh slate roof with overhanging eaves and decorative bargeboards, stone stacks at the front, and yellow brick at the rear, complemented by blue brick ridge tiles. The building has a central main frontage with seven bays, designed in a double pile layout, flanked by two gabled wings that project forward at each end. These wings have a side elevation of three bays, leading to a single bay cross wing at the rear left and a cross gable at the rear right.
The main frontage displays a continuous voussoir band across the range of windows on each storey. The original 6/6 pane sash windows have been replaced, although the glazing pattern has been retained. Each bay features a giant recessed round-headed arch made of ashlar and rubble, within which are round-headed multi-pane windows at the first floor level, also with replaced glazing, while the ground floor windows are square-headed. The left bay appears unaltered, while the right bay previously had double doors; the central door on the main frontage is a later addition. The side windows are accented with tooled voussoirs.
The interior has been converted into a residential nursing home.
Local climate
Former Truck Shop Tondu Ironworks now Foxtroy Residential 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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