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Latitude: 51.7554 / 51°45'19"N
Longitude: -3.3809 / 3°22'51"W
OS Eastings: 304783
OS Northings: 207204
OS Grid: SO047072
Mapcode National: GBR HN.0Q8X
Mapcode Global: VH6CY.C41M
Plus Code: 9C3RQJ49+5M
Entry Name: Gwaelodygarth House
Listing Date: 22 August 1975
Last Amended: 21 October 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11487
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300011487
Location: Set in its own grounds and reached uphill from the Brecon Road along a steep road which skirts the SE boundary of Cyfartha Castle Park.
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Community: Gurnos (Y Gurnos)
Community: Gurnos
Locality: Gwaelod-y-Garth
Built-Up Area: Merthyr Tydfil
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: House
Probably rebuilt for William Crawshay I after his father's death in 1810 and predating the castellated mansion built nearby by his son, William Crawshay II in 1825. Subsequently, Gwaelodygarth was sold for £2,500 to William Meyrick, a local lawyer who gave service to the Crawshays and, more recently, it was in the ownership of the Mid-Glamorgan Health Authority.
Main symmetrical exterior in simple classical style with two-storey three-window pedimental frontispiece, heraldic cockerel within gable panel. Thin Bath stone facings (painted) in channelled rustication with plain bands over ground and first floor windows and with plinth band. Upper level windows have residual Tudor dripmoulds and ground floor windows have cornices on scrolled volutes. Large architraved doorway under cornice in setback range to right and second doorway under modern porch to setback range to left.
Gutted and roofless at the time of inspection and upper floor of left-hand range collapsed; modern brick chimneys. Earlier roughcast brickwork can be seen behind the Bath stone facings. Some panelled window splays remain, though the small-pane sash windows have now gone.
Included for its special architectural interest as the fabric of a distinctively designed mansion for a great iron master. The late Georgian character has substantially survived the recent ruination.
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