History

Probably, like the terrace in Merthyr Road, built around the middle of the C19 to serve the industrial development at Melingriffith and Pentyrch works and the through traffic on the Cardiff Merthyr highway.

Exterior

Terrace of 5 houses stepped up hillside, nos. 1-2 and 3-4 paired with doors to sides. Built of coursed snecked roughly dressed stone rubble with roughly tooled stone voussoirs and quoins and narrow painted stone sills; Welsh slate roofs with brick ridge stacks. 2 storeys, single window range and front door opening directly onto pavement. Recessed openings, some of the reveals painted; probably the houses originally had small-pane sash windows and boarded doors, all altered.

Interior

Authority Cardiff Grade II
Date Listed 10/06/1977
Community Tongwynlais Date Amended 14/11/2000

Reasons for Listing

Included as part of a range of mid C19 terrace housing which has group value with terrace housing and railings in Merthyr Road.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29491833

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)