Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telecom Building
Castle, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Castle, Swansea, designated on 30 March 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61952, -3.93985
- Cadw reference
- 11662
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
Forward to right of Old Post Office building with modern Head Post Office to right.
History
Ca 1900. Arts and Crafts Gothic.
Exterior
3 storey and attic, 4 window banded ashlar front, slate roof behind parapet with gabled centre. Griffin finial, 3 grouped cusped lights, stringcourse with headstops under (panel defaced). Moulded cornice, polygonal buttresses, fine Gothic traceried frieze over 1st floor, plain frieze over ground floor. 1st and 2nd floor windows linked vertically in segmental arched recesses (formerly with vertical mullions), glazing modernised. Arched ground floor openings with blocked architraves and rich stiff-leaf spandrel foliage; modern glazing retains scrolled pediments to fanlights, panelled pilasters, 6 panel door on left.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Old Post Office Building (Now Post Office Sorting Office)Communicationsunder 1 mi
- National Bank LtdCommercialunder 1 mi
- Including Entry to Salubrious PassageCommercialunder 1 mi
- National Westminster BankCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.