Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
60 Bishopston Road
Bishopston, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 September 1992
- Locality
- Bishopston
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Bishopston
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58297, -4.05285
- Cadw reference
- 11732
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
Set back from the main road at the junction with a short lane, in the centre of the village. The front faces E.
History
Early C19, late Georgian house. The doorway is lower than the windows, suggesting that the house may have earlier origins. Marked as a post-office on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey of 1877.
Exterior
Symmetrical 3-window, 2-storey house. Constructed of rendered rubble under a slate roof with stone end stacks. Recessed 12-pane hornless sash windows with slightly cambered heads and stone sills. Doorway under similar, lower head, containing a C20 planked door. To the R is a single-storey range of rubble stone, with a multi-pane window to the front, and a planked door with hatch above to N gable end. Continuous lean-to at rear of house with stack to R. Central doorway flanked by a 6-pane sash window to L and a casement window to R. Skylight in lean-to roof. C20 half-lit door in angle of house and lower range.
Interior
Narrow central stair hall with stairs immediately behind front door, flanked by reception rooms.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as an especially well preserved early C19 building in the centre of the village.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St TeiloReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Murton WellReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Old Castle CampRingworkunder 1 mi
- Chantry Acre medieval chapelChapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.