Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lower Sketty Green Lodge in Singleton Park
Sketty, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Sketty, Swansea, designated on 15 November 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 November 1993
- Community
- Sketty
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61097, -3.98706
- Cadw reference
- 11764
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)
- 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)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On S side of path which enters park to N of entrance to Singleton Hospital.
History
Early C19 lodge. To a design of P F Robinson (1776-1858), which appears in his ‘Designs for Lodges and Park Entrances’ 1833.
Exterior
Single-storey park lodge. Stone walls, on plinth, coursed to N and E, rubble elsewhere, thatched roof with wide eaves, group of three large stone chimneys with diagonally-set stacks. Shallow gabled porch with Tudor-arched doorway, hoodmould with quatrefoil above. Splayed bay window to L, 2-light window to R of porch.
L gable has fretted bargeboard, and 2-light window with quatrefoil above.
Thatched wing to rear.
Nearby in the register
- Former Farmhouse to Singleton FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Sketty HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Fulton HouseEducationunder 1 mi
- Wallace BuildingNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.