Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Maritime & Industrial Museum
Waterfront / Y Glannau, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Waterfront / Y Glannau, Swansea, designated on 30 March 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Recreational
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Waterfront / Y Glannau
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61636, -3.93869
- Cadw reference
- 11598
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
On N quayside of S Dock, close to end of Burrows Place. Former dock warehouse.
History
After 1897, recent alterations for museum. Red brick, slate roofs.
Exterior
Long 2 storey elevation facing S Dock. Pilaster treatment, double pilasters 4 bays from W (where small extension added?); plinth and eaves course with diagonal headers. Alternating bays with arched bipartite windows and wide segmental arches (sliding doors inside ground floor openings). Modern 1st floor cantilevered walkway with double escape stairs.
W entrance gable with stepped and corbelled eaves, modern bargeboards; traceried oculus and lunette windows to upper floor, lean-to canopy with fretted valence and cast-iron columns to ground floor, segmental glazed openings under. Wider E gable with large upper arched recess with oculus flanked by arched openings, projecting cill band, twin segmental ground floor openings with open ground floor under girder to right.
Rear elevation steps out near W end to provide a projecting upper floor with horizontal girders supported by ironwork columns and Corinthian capitals, railway siding under. Twin arched windows in stepped recessed panels over.
Interior
Interior retains open boarded roof with lightweight metal trusses; main floor of fireproof construction with cross-girders on central lattice stanchions, shallow segmental plates between. Interiors subdivided.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Gloucester PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Gloucester PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plinth & Statue of JH VivianCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- The Pump HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.