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Latitude: 51.5106 / 51°30'38"N
Longitude: -3.5797 / 3°34'46"W
OS Eastings: 290470
OS Northings: 180259
OS Grid: SS904802
Mapcode National: GBR HD.J293
Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.W9X9
Plus Code: 9C3RGC6C+64
Entry Name: The Old Workhouse, Bridgend General Hospital
Listing Date: 7 August 1986
Last Amended: 29 September 1986
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11305
Building Class: Health and Welfare
ID on this website: 300011305
Location: Beside the road close to Ogmore River, the entrance range at right angles facing S across a formal garden.
County: Bridgend
Town: Bridgend
Community: Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr)
Community: Bridgend
Built-Up Area: Bridgend
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Workhouse
Commissioned by the Bridgend & Cowbridge Union, October 1836, completed Autumn 1838. Designed by George Wilkinson, architect of Witney (Oxfordshire). Cost £4,100. Originally to house 200 persons.
Plan form of 3 parallel ranges linked by a spinal range running from rear of S range. 2-storeys, 7-3-5 windows with advanced centre. Blue lias facings, sandstone dressings, slate roofs. Cusped bargeboards with finials to gables over 1st floor windows, 3 steep gables with parapets, kneelers and inscribed cartouche to centre. Plain band courses between storeys, low plinth. Voussoir lintels, 2-light windows with small casements on upper floor, modern frames to ground floor. Pair of stone doorcases to centre with drip stones. Gothic arches and flush-panelled doors.
Single-storey hipped roof extensions over arched entrance at road end.
Modern buildings to right end with 1-storey flat roof extension to S are not of special interest. Western rubble walled 2-storey courtyard survives radiating from 3-storey octagon with splayed ornately gabled angles. Canted single-storey rubble range overlooking road, raised by one storey to S end beside side access to walled courtyard.
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