District Education Office of Mid-Glamorgan County Council (YMCA) is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 August 1975. Farmhouse.

District Education Office of Mid-Glamorgan County Council (YMCA)

WRENN ID
dim-merlon-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Constituency
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 August 1975
Type
Farmhouse
Address
District Education Office of Mid-Glamorgan County Council (YMCA), Park
OS grid reference
SO 050 065
Coordinates
51.74993, -3.37747
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The District Education Office of Mid-Glamorgan County Council, also known as the YMCA, is a four-storey building featuring a seven-bay Edwardian Baroque façade. It is constructed with red brick facings and terracotta dressings, topped with slate roofs and chimneys at the end parapets. The central bay is emphasized and rusticated, complete with a segmental pediment and flanking stacks. It includes a two-storey splayed bay that cantilevers over compressed first-floor windows displaying a YMCA panel. The main entrance is arched, keyblocked, and cavetto-splayed, featuring a recessed door-screen.

The outer bays are rusticated and pilastered, with tripartite top windows, cornices, and aprons on the second floor, while the first floor has segmental arches. All windows feature small-pane glazing. The overall fascias are adorned with paired Doric half-columns at the glazed outer ground-floor bays. At the rear, there is a brick range with a segmental bow facing west.

Inside, there is a full-height Imperial staircase within the entrance hall, which boasts a good ironwork handrail with trellised newels.

Local climate

District Education Office of Mid-Glamorgan County Council (YMCA) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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