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The former Dowlais Ironworks Stables (now called Dowlais Stables) was built for Sir Josiah John Guest in 1820. The building is a rectangular plan of ranges set round a railway-served central yard. The south west range has two-storeys with centre and end pavilions separating 9-bay ranges and there is a tall central arch, through which the railway passed, with a circular clock face. The large first-floor rooms were used as a boys school until the Dowlais Schools 200 yards away were built in 1854-5. Soldiers were stationed there for several years after the Merthyr riots of 1831. The stables closed in the 1930s and the site became derelict. In the late 1970s unauthorised demolition started, but was brought to a halt. The whole site was bought by the "Merthyr Tydfil Heritage Trust" in 1981 and subsequently turned into flats. The south east facade walls were also substantially rebuilt. Of the original structure, only the southeast range and Stables House on the north west range currently survive.
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