Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
21 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
- 51.62129, -3.97068
- Cadw reference
- 14575
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
To N (right) of No 19 behind stone garden wall with stone arch to gateway.
History
Detached house of circa 1913.
Exterior
Two storeys plus attic; red brick and half-timbering with red tiled roof, bathstone dressings to some ground floor windows, tall rendered chimneys to ends; casement glazing with square cames. Front has to R, advanced steeply-pitched gabled bay, half-timbered and jettied, 3-light first floor window, below this (beneath jetty) splayed bay window under steeply-pitched tiled roof. To R roof sweeps down to first floor, large gabled (half timbered) dormer with 2-light window; below this, loggia set back between windows in bathstone dressings, window to rear, doorway to L. L 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
- 23 Eden AvenueDomesticunder 1 mi
- 19 Eden AvenueDomesticunder 1 mi
- 17 Eden AvenueDomesticunder 1 mi
- 15 Eden AvenueDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.