Electricity Power House, C Row (NW Side) is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 February 1995. House.

Electricity Power House, C Row (NW Side)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 February 1995
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Large, single storey, rectangular building in red brick. The main gable facade has three bays and the return elevation has nine bays. The symmetrical gable has a wide central semi-circular arched doorway, flanked by two tall semi-circular arched windows, with stone sills. Iron glazing bars are still present, but the openings have been in-filled with brick. An ocular window at the top of the gable wall is blind with small diamond shaped opening at its centre. End pilaster strips are continued as stepped decorative verges. The return elevation has eight identical semi-circular arched windows, all bricked in. Ninth window is blocked, with inserted doorway. Iron tie bars between the windows. Brick eaves cornice.

The floor level is split, being higher at the west end. The long walls have brick in-fill to their arches, into which iron girders have been fixed for an overhead gantry. The roof structure has narrow iron trusses.

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