Former Assembly Rooms

Waterfront / Y Glannau, Swansea, Wales

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Designation: Listed building, Grade II
Broad class: Recreational
Date of designation: 30 March 1987
Community: Waterfront / Y Glannau
Unitary authority: Swansea
Country: Wales
Coordinates: 51.61805, -3.93590
Cadw reference: 11559

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Cadw's description

Location

In terraced group stepping down from Pembroke Buildings on left.

History

After 1810. Designed by William Jernegan, architect of Swansea.

Exterior

Wide 2 storey and basement 5 bay façade, cement rendered upper floor, exposed rusticated blocks to ground floor facings behind Tuscan colonnade (formerly a loggia). Hipped slate roof, wide eaves, panelled pilasters and channelled rustication to outer 1st floor window bays, incised panels over centre bays. Plain margins to small-frame sash windows, incised aprons. Panelled end pilasters to ground floor, boarded small-pane windows, channelled voussoirs, segmental arch to centre doorway up steps. Area railings removed.

2 storey cemented rear elevation with hipped slate roof; 1st floor with 2 small-pane sashes to left, cantilevered 3-light bay to right. Arched doorway up steps with oculus to left.

Reason for designation

Group value.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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