Old homes in Pontypridd: 48% built before 1919

Municipal BuildingsGrade II* listedChurch of St CatherineGrade II* listedMarket Tavern HotelGrade II listedLido at Ynysangharad ParkGrade II listedEglwysbach Surgery (formerly Capel Goffa)Grade II listed+12See 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.

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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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Of the 85 entries, 23 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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

The first 5 entries were listed in 1962, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 40 came in 2001. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

4 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Welsh Government (Cadw).

Newbridge Beam EnginePost Medieval/Modern; Beam Engine

Pontypridd BridgeMedieval; Bridge

Ring Cairn and Two Standing Stones on Coedpenmaen CommonPrehistoric; Ring Cairn

Y Garreg Siglo Bardic ComplexPost Medieval/Modern; Bardic Complex

1 registered park or garden

Ynysangharad ParkGrade II · Public park

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.

37% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 11% 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.

Old houses are part of Pontypridd’s character: 48% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 85 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Pontypridd Bridge. Broadway alone has 13 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 7 conservation areas, the first designated in 1975. Beyond that, it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891) was born here before 1900.