Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
23 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
- 51.62139, -3.97065
- Cadw reference
- 14576
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
At N end of Avenue, overlooking Cwmdonkin Park; behind stone garden wall with stone arch to gateway.
History
Detached house of circa 1915.
Exterior
Pebbledashed with red-tiled roof, some half-timbering red brick chimneys. Large gabled wing to front (road), half timbered to apex, 3-light first floor window below which is ground floor splayed bay window under steeply-pitched tiled roof; entrance doorway to R, set under interior porch with stone arch. In R roofslope, facing N, hipped dormer. To rear, block with hipped and mansard roof. North elevation (towards park) has 2 storeys plus attic (and basement) half-hipped roof to attic (half-timbered), 3-light window, 2 storey splayed bay window (rounded window ground floor L of bay). Rear has open porch on square wooden posts.
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
- 21 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.