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Nos. 53 & 55 Lon Isa

A Grade II Listed Building in Rhiwbina, Cardiff

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5227 / 51°31'21"N

Longitude: -3.2177 / 3°13'3"W

OS Eastings: 315616

OS Northings: 181128

OS Grid: ST156811

Mapcode National: GBR K74.H3

Mapcode Global: VH6F0.5ZTK

Plus Code: 9C3RGQFJ+3W

Entry Name: Nos. 53 & 55 Lon Isa

Listing Date: 30 November 2001

Last Amended: 30 November 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 25912

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300025912

Location: On N side of strret, opposite Nos. 42 & 44.

County: Cardiff

Community: Rhiwbina (Rhiwbeina)

Community: Rhiwbina

Locality: Rhiwbina Garden Village (N)

Built-Up Area: Cardiff

Traditional County: Glamorgan

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History

Garden City movement began at turn of C19/C20; Garden City Association was formed and a seminal conference held at Bourneville Birmingham in 1901. Pioneer developments were at Hampstead Garden Suburb and Letchworth. Aim was to provide workers with modest but good quality housing on the cottage principle in healthy green surroundings incorporating open spaces, adequate private gardens, with hedges and trees lining the roads. Garden Village houses were also amongst the first small houses to have inside lavatories, bathrooms, and to incorporate dpcs. In 1911 the Cardiff Workers' Cooperative Garden Village Society was formed which bought for development an area of Pentwyn Estate by Rhiwbina Halt. Raymond Unwin, a leading light in the movement, was invited to provide plans. Contemporary posters c 1913 issued by the Society and also the Garden Village Management Committee promoted it as 'Rhubina Fields', a suburb with convenient transport 'Rail from Rhymney Station, Motor Bus from North Road' and 'From Work to Home by Train or Bus. Gardening - Tennis - Country Walks.' Originally over 1000 houses were envisaged. First area to be developed in 1912-13 was the 'Village Green' Y Groes Nos. 1-22, together with Nos. 2-20 Lon Isa, an E/W road to the N, and Nos. 2-22 Lon-y-dail, a tree-lined N/S avenue to W; architect A H Mottram of Parker and Unwin and builder J O West. Next area to be developed in 1914 though only transferred to Garden Village in 1917 was Pen-y-dre, to S alongside a stream and incorporating footbridges; architect H Avray Tipping or assistant Eric Francis. T Alwyn Lloyd became architect in 1915 and continued the development to W, including a house for himself No. 11 Heol Wen which dominates Pen-y-dre. In 1920, 93 further houses were built and in 1922 another 26. School added in 1928. Garages began to be added 1930s, though by now plans were suffering a downturn. The Society employed its own staff of workmen to maintain the buildings. Houses were originally painted in cream with Buckingham Green windows. Rhiwbina Garden Village Ltd was wound up in 1981, a Conservation Area including almost all the development having been created in 1976.

Exterior

Pair of semi-detached houses (Rhiwbina Type 8a). Two storeys. Roughcast render (painted). Hipped slate roofs, brick chimney to centre and ends. Four window front, end bays advanced with hipped roofs. Replacement glazing to No. 53. In No. 55 L bay on first floor has tripartite sashes with 12-pane windows flanked by narrow sashes; other windows are 16-pane sashes. Doorways in end walls beneath flat hoods, small-pane sash on upper floor.

Reasons for Listing

Included as an integral part of Rhiwbina Garden Village. Group Value.

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