Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
17 Eden Avenue
Uplands, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Uplands, Swansea, designated on 25 July 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 July 1994
- Community
- Uplands
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.62109, -3.97073
- Cadw reference
- 14573
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
Almost opposite W end of Westfa Road, behind stone garden wall with stone arch to gateway.
History
Detached house of circa 1913.
Exterior
Two storeys plus attic; red brick and pebbledash with red tiled roof, bathstone dressings to some ground floor windows, tall rendered chimneys to ends. Mainly modern glazing with square cames respecting original openings. Front has to R, advanced steeply-pitched gable bay (half-timbering to apex), 3-light first floor window, below this splayed bay window under steeply-pitched tiled roof. To R, (centre) of gable, flat-roofed attic dormer; roof sweeps down to first floor, large hipped dormer with 4-light window to front (turns to R as 3 lights); below this, recessed loggia flanked by windows in bathstone dressings, window to rear, doorway to L. Left elevation has entrance doorway under 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
- 19 Eden AvenueDomesticunder 1 mi
- 15 Eden AvenueDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 Eden AvenueDomesticunder 1 mi
- 21 Eden AvenueDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.