19 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Penuel Baptist ChurchGrade II* listedChurch of St DavidGrade II* listedWar MemorialGrade II listedEbenezer Calvinistic Methodist Chapel including vestryGrade II listed+1See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

c. 1870

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 9 entries were listed in 1975. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

30% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 21% of today’s homes.

Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

John D. Reese

Bill Evans

David Rocyn-Jones

Alfred Mathews

Abel J. Jones

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DR

David Rocyn-Jones1862–1953 · British rugby union official

Alfred Mathews1864–1946 · Welsh rugby union player

AJ

Abel J. Jones1878–1949 · British writer (1878-1949)

JR

John D. Reese1855–1931 · American baseball coach (1855-1931)

BE

Bill Evans1857–1935 · Rugby union player

Everyone born in Rhymney → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Old houses are part of Rhymney’s character: 33% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 19 listed buildings, including Penuel Baptist Church. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1975. David Rocyn-Jones (1862), Alfred Mathews (1864) and Abel J. Jones (1878) are among the 5 people born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.