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Latitude: 51.7046 / 51°42'16"N
Longitude: -3.4437 / 3°26'37"W
OS Eastings: 300333
OS Northings: 201637
OS Grid: SO003016
Mapcode National: GBR HL.3SL9
Mapcode Global: VH6D3.8F93
Plus Code: 9C3RPH34+RG
Entry Name: Blaengwawr House
Listing Date: 29 November 2002
Last Amended: 29 November 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 80699
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300080699
Location: Near the N boundary of Aberaman community and S of Aberdare, reached by a lane leading off the B4275, set back in gardens.
County: Rhondda Cynon Taff
Town: Aberdare
Community: Aberaman
Community: Aberaman
Locality: Blaengwawr
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: House
Blaengwawr Farmhouse was extended eastwards in mid C19 to provide a separate grander house with landscaped grounds for the owner of the nearby works, shown on first edition OS map as colliery, iron foundry and brick kilns. Reportedly built by David Davies in 1851 who also built a similar house at nearby Maes y Ffynnon, one to be inhabited by himself and one by his son. The Blaengwawr colliery consisted of 3 main levels, 2 of which were disused by the time of the OS map of 1920: it was never a large development. Railway, the Cwmaman branch of the GWR, was constructed nearby in 1880s. Gardens contained green-houses and potting sheds, one range of which survives.
Victorian house in classicizing style. Attached at rear to farmhouse, this wing is a separate E-facing
residence. Rendered and painted, the main structure in white and the dressings in black, with shallow-pitched machine-tile roof with overhanging bracketed eaves and brick stacks. Channelled quoins; moulded architraves with keystone and shallow bracketed sills to the set-back cross-framed windows. 2 storeys. Frontage of 3 bays, the centre projecting with bracketed hood to panelled part-glazed entrance door retaining brass fittings, 3 stone steps; windows in return and above. At left a single window to each floor, ground floor glazed verandah with decorative metal posts. At right a narrower bay, again with a single window to each floor; ground floor has a projecting channelled bay with pitched roof with bracketed eaves. Plinth. Longer rear pitch to roof and lower cross range, formerly part of and still adjoining the farmhouse.
Interior is entered through a glazed lobby with original staircase rising from hall behind: slender turned
balusters, wreathed handrail, decorative treads. Through basket-arch to rear and with lower ceiling level
is the wing which was formerly part of the farmhouse, extended to S. Throughout fine panelled shutters and reveals are retained; 4 panelled doors and their moulded surrounds, moulded hall cornice. Part wooden, part flag floor. No original fireplaces remain.
Listed as the rebuilt and improved wing of a mid C19 farmstead, reflecting the industrial development nearby. Group value with Blaengwawr Farmhouse.
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