Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gazebo in Clyne Gardens
Mumbles, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 29 October 1999
- Locality
- Clyne Castle
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Mumbles
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.59702, -4.00454
- Cadw reference
- 22552
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
In Clyne Gardens on the W side of Clyne Castle.
History
Clyne Castle was owned by the Vivian family, one of the most prominent of the Swansea industrial families, between 1860 and 1952. The first occupant, William Graham Vivian, focused his attentions on alterations to the house, and made a new entrance drive with lodge on the S side. Admiral Algernon Walker-Heneage-Vivian, who lived in the house between 1921 and 1952, extended the pleasure grounds in front of the house, where there are 3 National Collections of Rhododendrons and National Collections of Enkianthus and Pieris. The gazebo dates from this period. After his death in 1952 the house and grounds were sold to the Borough of Swansea, which opened the former pleasure grounds in 1954 as a pubic park, now known as Clyne Gardens.
Exterior
An octagonal 2-storey gazebo, the lower storey of rubble stone with concrete dressings, the upper storey of coursed, fine-grained concrete. A slate pyramidal roof has triangular roof dormers and a moulded wooden pinnacle. The upper storey has 2-light wooden casements with moulded lintels and sills. The doorway is on the NW side and is reached by external concrete steps with plain railings and above a rubble stone wall. The plain door has been boarded over. The lower storey has a plain door on the SE side and a boarded-up casement on the NE side.
Interior
The roof has open struts and rafters and a central pendant.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Clyne Castle and other associated listed items in Clyne Gardens.
Nearby in the register
- Clyne Gardens Glass HousesGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Clyne Castle (also known as Neuadd Gilbertson)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Clock Tower at Clyne CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Italian Bridge in Clyne GardensGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.