Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Liverpool Victoria Insurance Offices Including "Cane Connection" Shop
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
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Locality
- Swansea
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61962, -3.94044
- Cadw reference
- 11657
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
Late C19 or early C20.
Exterior
Free Baroque style. 4 storeys and attic; 3 bay ashlar front with pink and white banding. Tall gable with dragon finial, bull’s eye window and supporting volutes. Polygonal corner buttresses with urn finials, flat pilasters with cartouche in scrolled pediment over centre bay, moulded cornices and cill bands. Scrolled pediments to 2nd and 3rd floor windows; 1st floor centre has aedicule treatment with curvilinear pediment topped by lion sedent, bulbous fluted half-columns with Corinthian capitals. Arched flank windows with cartouche keyblocks and bowed balustraded aprons. Modern glazing. Overall shop front with recessed entry on right.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- National Bank LtdCommercialunder 1 mi
- 6 Wind StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- National Bank LtdCommercialunder 1 mi
- Old Post Office Building (Now Post Office Sorting Office)Communicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.