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Latitude: 51.4964 / 51°29'47"N
Longitude: -3.584 / 3°35'2"W
OS Eastings: 290136
OS Northings: 178685
OS Grid: SS901786
Mapcode National: GBR HD.JTFY
Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.TNM7
Plus Code: 9C3RFCW8+H9
Entry Name: Former Preswylfa Childrens Home
Listing Date: 26 February 1987
Last Amended: 26 February 1987
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11343
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300011343
Location: At the southern corner of a planned square.
County: Bridgend
Community: Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr)
Community: Bridgend
Built-Up Area: Bridgend
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Building
Built 1902, part of the Bridgend and Cowbridge union.
Twin-unit, symmetrically stepped, 2-storey, 6-window bull-nosed rubble front with low buttresses, plinth and freestone dressings. Tall tiled roofs, lower to ends, with overhanging eaves, ridge cresting and finials, rubble chimney stacks and central dividing parapet. Hipped and gabled cross roofs, advanced to penultimate bays, with lean-to porches to outer return walls. Mainly paired sash windows.
Half-hipped end walls, similar detail at rear with 2-single storey extensions.
In poor condition at the time of inspection (April 1986).
Included for group value.
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