Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
YMCA Building including Nos. 2-4
Castle, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Health and Welfare
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61948, -3.95077
- Cadw reference
- 11588
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
Large corner block on corner of Page Street and running back to Northampton Lane.
History
Dated 1912, opened 1913, later additions including Llewellyn Hall of 1920. Possibly designed by C T Ruthen. Restrained Baroque style.
Dylan Thomas played in amateur dramatics at Llewellyn Hall.
Exterior
4 storey block in red brick and Portland stone with banded quoins. 3 window cantilevered and splayed corner with clock to parapet, husk enrichments; balustraded parapets with frontispieces to left and right fronts, dated and inscribed tablets. 4-light cantilevered bay to Kingsway, vertically linked windows; enriched oculi to Page Street centre. Windows generally with shouldered architraves, keyblocks and aprons, band over 1st floor, arched ground panelled doors. Overall cornice with volute brackets to shop front pilasters on Kingsway, right-hand doorway with volute brackets to square frame of oculus over architrave surround. Arched ground floor openings to Page Street with chunky doorcase to Llewellyn Hall. Restrained classical interiors.
Nearby in the register
- Llewellyn Hall including Nos. 2-4Domesticunder 1 mi
- Pagefield House (Quaker Meeting House)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St Andrew's United Reformed ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Carlton Cinema (Including Nos.18B & 18C)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.