Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tavern PH & Ye Olde Wine Shoppe
Castle, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Locality
- Swansea
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61963, -3.94637
- Cadw reference
- 11647
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
Near corner with Oxford Street.
History
Remodelled ca 1900. Arts and Crafts style.
Exterior
3 storey and attic narrow gabled frontage, black and white treatment. Slate roofs with cross-gable, bargeboards, 2-light attic window with small-pane casements. Projecting moulded eaves cornice with ironwork brackets. 2 storey centre bay with stringcourses and lean-to fishscale tiled side roofs on scrolled brackets. 4-light windows per storey, small-pane casements under transoms, fleur-de-lys brace-plates.
Animal head-corbels over ground floor segmental arch with recessed small-pane bowed bar front with flanking doors. Nailhead studded doors with ironwork plates and strapwork hinges. Various ironwork brackets including octagonal lantern over entrance.
Interior
Retains contemporary half-timber fittings including grotesque head-corbels, quatrefoil and arched panels, open balustered staircase, beamed ceilings etc.
Nearby in the register
- Former Carlton Cinema (Including Nos.18B & 18C)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Mond BuildingsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Restaurant including Nos. 18B & 18CCommercialunder 1 mi
- Mond BuildingsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.