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Honeywell Power Tools Testing Division

A Grade II Listed Building in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5684 / 51°34'6"N

Longitude: -3.2847 / 3°17'4"W

OS Eastings: 311053

OS Northings: 186285

OS Grid: ST110862

Mapcode National: GBR HS.DJGD

Mapcode Global: VH6DS.0VV1

Plus Code: 9C3RHP98+94

Entry Name: Honeywell Power Tools Testing Division

Listing Date: 26 February 2001

Last Amended: 26 February 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 24884

Building Class: Industrial

ID on this website: 300024884

Location: Set back from Main Avenue with an access road on the SE side opposite the telephone exchange.

County: Rhondda Cynon Taff

Town: Pontypridd

Community: Pontypridd

Community: Pontypridd

Locality: Treforest Industrial Estate

Built-Up Area: Pontypridd

Traditional County: Glamorgan

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History

The South Wales and Monmouthshire Trading Estate at Treforest was established in 1936, the first such estate in Wales, and by 1939 sixty-six firms employed 2500 people. Its honorary architect from 1936-70 was Sir Percy Thomas. The present building was built in the early 1950s on the site of an earlier railway.

Exterior

A small factory comprising a fashionably modern 2-storey L-shaped entrance block with a range behind of 3 gabled bays. The walls are a mixed use of brick and render, with concrete detailing. Metal-framed windows incorporate lying panes. The entrance is within a higher and rounded corner bay which has a continuous window wrapped around in the lower storey, on the L side of which are double panelled doors with raised fields. A curved concrete canopy is above the entrance and lower storey, while the upper storey has full-height glazing with panels of frosted small-pane glazing above and below plate glass windows. Above it the parapet has a projecting concrete coping. A projecting higher brick stair tower is on the L side of the entrance. It has a porthole window in the lower storey and tall narrow stair light above. On the L side is a rendered 2-storey wing, set back from the stair tower, with 2 bands of windows in each storey. On the R side of the corner bay is a projecting painted-brick 2-storey wing with similar bands of windows. The range behind has a corrugated asbestos-cement roof and the rear bay is hipped to the front.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its architectural interest as an accomplished, well-detailed and well-preserved industrial building in the mid-C20 manner of Sir Percy Thomas and partners.

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