Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
5 Gloucester Place
Waterfront / Y Glannau, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Waterfront / Y Glannau
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61710, -3.93713
- Cadw reference
- 11580
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Terrace of late Georgian houses making up most of W side of the street.
History
Early/mid C19, later alterations.
Exterior
3-storey and basement cemented and roughcast fronts, 2 bays each house, slightly breaking forward on right. Slate roofs with brick stacks behind parapet with moulded cappings; cill band over ground floor, exposed rubble basements. Sash windows with small-frame glazing.
Left hand arched and rusticated doorcases with traceried fanlights (removed No 1), double
2-panel doors reached by flying platforms over railed areas.
Partly in poor state of repair at time of inspection (spring 1986).
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Gloucester PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Gloucester PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Gloucester PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Gloucester PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.