Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Canteen Building at the Former Yorkshire Imperial Metalworks
Landore, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Landore, Swansea, designated on 3 January 1980.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 3 January 1980
- Community
- Landore
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63923, -3.93592
- Cadw reference
- 11691
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
Set away from main road and reached under railway, entrance to works was formerly across Swansea Canal.
Exterior
Late C19. Former power house building to Morfa Copper Works. Rubble walls with quoins and freestone dressings. Wide slate roof with gambrel treatment to E end, continues down over side aisles, long glazed roof-lights. Remains of clock tower with trapezoidal base (formerly louvered with clock faces, weathervane etc.). Two stone chimney stacks with cornice to right, vents along ridge. E gable end has tall rounded-head window with glazing-bars over segmentally-headed doorway (blocked); this centre bay flanged by segmental windows with glazing bars above wide modern windows (blocked). Front walls of side aisles canted back, each with (blocked)segmental openings on ground floor.
Fine aisled interior of 4 bays with composite timber and iron trusses (basically queen post construction), circular cast-iron spandrels between collar and ironwork. Gothic braces supported by slender, reeded cast-iron columns with capitals. Tension braces and ties of wrought-iron and compression members of cast-iron.
Reason for designation
Derelict at time of inspection (Spring 1986)
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Laboratory Building at Entrance to Former Yorkshire Imperial Metal WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Pier to former waste tip tramroad and adjoining boundary wallIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Copper slag abutment to former waste tip tramroadIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Museum Stores, formerly Morfa Copperworks rolling millIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.