Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Richmond Villas
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
- 51.61953, -3.96400
- Cadw reference
- 14585
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
At W end of Ffynone Road almost opposite nursing home.
History
House, circa 1860.
Exterior
Stucco, (modern) tiled roof, hipped to R, double slope, chimneys removed. Two storeys plus attic (3 modern windows in L gable). Three window front, outer windows slightly advanced, 16-pane hornless sashes; band course at sill level of first floor windows; central narrow window to ground floor (hornless glazing); former ground floor central window now doorway (1920’s style door). To L, 2-storey link to adjacent house (pitched slate roof), two windows to upper level, panelled entrance doorway set forward in flat-roofed porch.
Reason for designation
One of a planned group of unusual small stucco villas, amongst earliest developments in Ffynone.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
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- Richmond VillasDomesticunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.