Dowlais Works Stables

The Dowlais Works Stables are a former stable range, now converted into flats. The building is constructed from squared grey-brown rubble stone with grey limestone dressings, with some renewed dressings in tooled sandstone. It has slate eaves roofs. The structure is two storeys high, composed of a central section and end pavilions, separating nine bays. The right-hand range and the upper part of the left pavilion have been entirely rebuilt. Originally, the lower windows had cambered heads with limestone voussoirs, and the upper windows were segmental-headed, featuring small-paned glazing and stone sills. The left-hand range has a plinth with limestone coping, necessitated by the slope of the site. The front wall of the right-hand range has been rebuilt using sandstone voussoirs to the openings. All windows are now 20th-century small-paned casements with a four-pane top light.

The central entrance features grey stone quoins, a tall, wide entry with a depressed arch and grey stone voussoirs and keystone, plus a plain impost course also in grey limestone. Below the impost level on each side is a narrow plate of cast-iron built-in with a pierced hole for a door pin. The upper storey has a stone-framed, eroded rectangular plaque, originally bearing the date 1820 in Roman numerals, set between flush bands of grey stone. Star-shaped cast-iron tie-rod ends are visible on each side. A pediment with a thin base course and bargeboards tops the gable, incorporating additional tie-rod ends and a large cast-iron clock face at the centre. A renewed octagonal timber lantern with an ogee lead dome and urn finial sits on the ridge. The end pavilions have coped pediments with large blind keyed roundels in grey stone.

The main floors incorporate a triumphal-arch motif, with quoined piers, a thin impost band, and a grey stone arch with voussoirs. Each arch contains a single window on each floor. The left pavilion has been rebuilt with an impost course and pediment mirroring those of the other end pavilion, but using tooled sandstone dressings. The end walls are windowless. Rebuilt stairs to the upper floors are located within the arches.

The rear of the building was entirely rebuilt in yellow brick to create flats, featuring an access balcony, with the exception of the three main features, which remain in rubble stone and are plain. The rear of these three features retains its rubble stone construction. The central rear section has stone voussoirs to a depressed arch, two louvred square lights above with renewed voussoirs, and a blocked brick roundel. The outer pavilions each have a window on every floor, renewed with 20th-century glazing. The building was not inspected internally.