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Latitude: 51.4976 / 51°29'51"N
Longitude: -3.5842 / 3°35'3"W
OS Eastings: 290124
OS Northings: 178813
OS Grid: SS901788
Mapcode National: GBR HD.JTBY
Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.TMJB
Plus Code: 9C3RFCX8+28
Entry Name: Former Preswylfa Childrens Home
Listing Date: 26 February 1987
Last Amended: 26 February 1987
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11348
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300011348
Location: Near the northern corner of a planned square near the entrance.
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 bull-nosed rubble 3-window front with outer 1st floor windows rising through overhanging eaves with dormer type roofs. Tall hipped tiled roof with ridge cresting and finials, brick capped rubble chimney stacks. Plinth and freestone window dressings. Central 2-storey and attic bay advanced and gable ended; flanking cross roofs, gabled to right, hipped to left. Mainly paired sash windows. Lean-to porch to return angle of central bay. Half hipped right end, cross gable to left end; similar detail at rear with low central extension.
In poor condition at time of inspection (April 1986).
Group Value.
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