Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Pilot House
Waterfront / Y Glannau, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Waterfront / Y Glannau
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61611, -3.93135
- Cadw reference
- 11655
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
At pierhead on W bank of River Tawe and downstream at entry to S Dock.
History
Later C19 (possibly ca1880).
Exterior
Compact 2 storey red brick structure with tall crenellated (outlook?) tower to N end. Slate roofs (stripped at time of inspection). Segmental arched window heads to 1st floor, lunettes to ground floor, fixed small-pane glazing. Brace-plates to tower top; plinth, outside stair with ironwork handrail to 1st floor boarded doors. Small 1 storey gabled extension to S end. Boarded interior to upper room with panelled doors.
Undergoing restoration at time of inspection (May 1986).
Nearby in the register
- 13 Cambrian PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 12 Cambrian PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 Cambrian PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 Cambrian PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.