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Mount Pleasant Hotel

Castle, Swansea, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Castle, Swansea, designated on 30 March 1987.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Mount Pleasant Hotel, Castle, Swansea, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

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

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