Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mount Pleasant Hotel
Castle, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.62267, -3.94758
- Cadw reference
- 11594
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
Set against hillside on corner of Heathfield, a scarce domestic survivor of late Georgian Swansea.
History
Late C18, built for Edward Hughes (who had built the demolished Heathfield House), later additions.
Exterior
3 storey L-plan stucco front with range forward to right, low 1 storey extension in angle. Hipped slate roofs, moulded eaves, 3 windows, wide architraves with keyblocks to ground and 1st floors, sashes with small-pane glazing, balconies to 3 window left side. Doorway under arched hood on fluted brackets, 3 windows to right.
Nearby in the register
- Offices of Community IndustryCommercialunder 1 mi
- Former Swansea Grammar SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- Top Rank Club (formerly Albert Hall)Recreationalunder 1 mi
- Technical College BuildingEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.