Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
5 Cwmdonkin Drive
Uplands, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 July 1994
- Community
- Uplands
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.62101, -3.96486
- Cadw reference
- 14562
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
On S corner of Hillside Crescent.
History
Pair of semi-detached houses circa 1914. No 5 was birthplace (October 27 1914) and home until early manhood of poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1954). The house and Cwmdonkin area were important formative influences upon Thomas and feature in many of his works for example the house is the setting of ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’.
Exterior
Pair of semi-detached houses; two storeys, pebbledash elevations, but first floor front tile-hung, hipped slate roof central red brick chimney. Each house has bracketed tile-hung gable over two storey splayed bay window No 5 has segmentally-headed horned sash windows with small panes in upper sashes and larger panes in lower sashes. Windows of number 6 have inappropriate replacement glazing. Entrances to sides (later flat-roofed porch to No 5; later lean-to porch to No 6). 2 windows to first floor. To rear, long wings with first floor splayed oriel windows to gabled ends.
No 6 included for group value.
Reason for designation
No 5 listed for its long and very close association with life and works of Dylan Thomas, a writer of international importance.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Cwmdonkin DriveDomesticunder 1 mi
- Devon TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Devon TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Devon TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.