Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
6 Wind Street
Castle, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Swansea, Castle, designated on 30 March 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Locality
- Swansea
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61967, -3.94058
- Cadw reference
- 11656
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
In a mixed group of commercial buildings leading up to the Castle.
History
Dated 1897. English Renaissance style.
Exterior
3 storey and attic, 3-bay ashlar front; paired pilasters. Doric: Ionic: Corinthian (ground to top storey). Outer splayed bays through upper storeys, bracket eaves with balustraded parapets, open pediment treatment with urn finial and twin swagged pilasters to attic lunette, outer dormers with segmental heads in steep slate roof, end brick stacks. Stone mullioned and transomed bays, head and date cartouches to 1st floor frieze, triglyph frieze with outer bays and centre balcony cantilevered on brackets over 5-bay ground floor with arched openings. Double outer panelled doors with segmental pediments to fanlights.
Interior
Good cantilevered dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and finials.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Liverpool Victoria Insurance Offices Including "Cane Connection" ShopCommercialunder 1 mi
- National Bank LtdCommercialunder 1 mi
- National Bank LtdCommercialunder 1 mi
- 61 Wind StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.