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
- 51.61969, -3.96318
- Cadw reference
- 14589
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
Towards W end of Ffynone Road.
History
House, circa 1860.
Exterior
Stucco, (modern) tiled roof; stucco chimneys to ends. Two storeys plus attic (2 modern windows to each gable). Three window front, band course at sill level of first floor windows; outer windows slightly advanced, 16-pane hornless sashes; central narrow window to each floor (small pane glazing). To R, modern extension; to L, lower 2-storey link to neighbouring house, modern window to first floor, ground floor set forward with panelled door (upper panels glazed), door flanked by windows.
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.