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Latitude: 51.4969 / 51°29'48"N
Longitude: -3.5843 / 3°35'3"W
OS Eastings: 290121
OS Northings: 178745
OS Grid: SS901787
Mapcode National: GBR HD.JTC5
Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.TMHT
Plus Code: 9C3RFCW8+Q7
Entry Name: Former Preswylfa Childrens Home
Listing Date: 26 February 1987
Last Amended: 26 February 1987
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11344
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300011344
Location: On the SW side 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 1880, part of the Bridgend and Cowbridge union. Arts and Crafts.
Single-unit asymmetrical 2-storey 2-window bull-nosed rubble front with plinth and freestone window dressings. Steep tiled roof swept low to centre with overhanging eaves, ridge cresting and finials, rubble chimney stacks. Advanced to right with half hipped cross roof; 1st floor window to left rises through eaves with gabled dormer roof; blocked up paired windows. Half-hipped left end with outside stairs, gabled upper window to right side. Rear elevation similar to the front. Modern school building to the right is not of special interest.
In poor condition at time of inspection (April 1986).
Group value.
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