Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
6 Wind Street
Castle, Swansea, Wales
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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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
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.