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Latitude: 51.6532 / 51°39'11"N
Longitude: -3.6318 / 3°37'54"W
OS Eastings: 287211
OS Northings: 196198
OS Grid: SS872961
Mapcode National: GBR HB.715S
Mapcode Global: VH5GR.0QD0
Plus Code: 9C3RM939+77
Entry Name: 5 Gelli Houses, Gelli
Listing Date: 31 July 2000
Last Amended: 31 July 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 23858
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300023858
Location: Approximately 1.1km E of Cymmer and set back from the A4107.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Community: Glyncorrwg
Community: Glyncorrwg
Locality: Gelli
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Building
Erected in 1883 for colliers at nearby pits owned by the Glyncorrwg Coal Mining Company. The single-storey construction is unusual and the Gelli Houses represent one of the latest examples of the type. Of four-room construction with a lean-to pantry at the back, only two of the rooms were originally heated. The houses originally shared a communal bakehouse but this had been demolished by 1904.
1-12 Gelli Houses
Two rows of 6 double-fronted houses are placed end-to-end but not quite parallel. The rubble-stone walls are now rendered, the roofs have been renewed and most of the brick stacks survive, some rendered. The windows and doors are replaced, mostly in original openings.
Not inspected.
Listed as a rare surviving row of single-storey colliers' cottages, representing a distinctive plan form used in the early mining cottages on the western side of the South Wales coalfield.
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