Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Hafod Copperworks river quay
Landore, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hafod, Swansea, Landore, designated on 29 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Hafod
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Landore
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63691, -3.93513
- Cadw reference
- 16879
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)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (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)
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the north side of the Hafod and Morfa copperworks site, off the cross-valley road between Foxhole Road and Neath Road.
History
Hafod Copperworks was established in 1810 by John Vivian and continued to be owned by the Vivian family until 1924 when it amalgamated with the adjacent Morfa Copperworks. It was subsequently operated by Yorkshire Imperial Metals until it closed in 1980. The river quay appears to have been built in 1810 for the unloading of large quantities of copper ore brought up the Tawe by coasting vessels and for the export of copper products.
Exterior
A tall quay of dressed sandstone with flat stone copings. The quay is straight for most of its length, from its junction with a recent concrete river wall at the north to a right-angled return near its southern end. The return was designed to allow vessels to draw back from the river current. There is a smaller return before a raised stop at the southern end of the quay.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early industrial river quay and for group value with the listed buildings of the Hafod and Morfa copperworks.
Nearby in the register
- Hafod Copper Works Musgrave Engine and RollsCopper Worksunder 1 mi
- Musgrave engine house and chimneyIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Boundary wall of former Hafod Copperworks canal docksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Vivian engine houseIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.