Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
15 Eden Avenue
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
- 51.62098, -3.97071
- Cadw reference
- 14572
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
Opposite W end of Westfa Road. There is no No 13 in Eden Avenue.
Exterior
Behind stone garden wall with stone arch to gateway.
Large asymmetrical pair of semi-detached houses of circa 1913.
Two storeys plus attic; red tiled roofs, pebbledashed upper floors, soft red brick ground floor stone dressings, rendered chimneys to ends and centre. Two attic dormers, hipped tiled roofs, 3-light windows. L house has projecting hipped roof block (deeply overhanging eaves), splayed 2-storey bay window. L house has 3-light first floor window; ground floor window/entrance door set back as loggia. R house has shallow 2-storey splayed bay, and to R, 3-light first floor window, and entrance doorway with overlight and to R broad 3-light window all under broad bracketed hood.
Reason for designation
Included as part of good well preserved group of early C20 housing on W side of Eden Avenue.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 11 Eden AvenueDomesticunder 1 mi
- 17 Eden AvenueDomesticunder 1 mi
- 9 Eden AvenueDomesticunder 1 mi
- 19 Eden AvenueDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.