Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Offices of Community Industry
Castle, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Castle, Swansea, designated on 30 March 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.62244, -3.94676
- Cadw reference
- 11595
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently sited at the foot of the hill on the corner with Mount Pleasant Drive.
Exterior
ca 1900. Arts and Crafts style corner building. 2 storeys plus attic and basement, hipped slate roof with 3 storey bay rising through eaves on S front; ridge cresting, red brick stack to rear, overhanging eaves. Tile-hung 1st floor, red brick ground-floor. Gabled dormers to road, full-height S bay with 4-light small-pane glazing, boarded and swept aprons linked to cornices. 2 storey 3-light oriel treatment to splayed angle bay. Diagonal bay over porch to centre of road front; lean-to hood with cross-gablet, turned openwork timber supports.
Lower 2 storey range curves uphill with cantilevered bay at 1st floor level. Adjoining right hand building removed.
Nearby in the register
- Mount Pleasant HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Top Rank Club (formerly Albert Hall)Recreationalunder 1 mi
- Former Swansea Grammar SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- Mount Pleasant Baptist School BlocksEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.