About
The Cottage Hospital first opened in 1896. It originally contained two small wings for patients and was largely paid for by the Eisteddfod Committee and the Earl of Dunraven. After the First World War there was a need for additional space and in the late 1920’s the hospital was moved to a large house named Fitzhamon Court in Merthyr Mawr Road, near to the Tythe Barn. The original building then became a Tuberculosis Clinic.
The building, located on the corner of Nolton Street and Court Road, just behind the Randall Memorial Drinking Fountain (9) is designed in Edwardian Queen Anne style. The main part of the building is two stories tall and flanked on either side by a single floor annex. The property’s front elevation is built from pale sandstone with red and dark coloured brick decorative detailing on the band above the windows. The building has a distinctive ‘jerkinhead roof’ – this describes a roof which combines both gable and hipped roof designs, providing an aesthetically interesting appearance – together with red brown eaves.
