Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dock at former White Rock Copperworks and quay wall to N
St. Thomas, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 9 February 2004
- Locality
- White Rock
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- St. Thomas
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63495, -3.93353
- Cadw reference
- 82483
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
On the E bank of the Tawe on the W side of the site of the former White Rock Copperworks.
Exterior
Included as an industrial dock of early date, presumably early C18, associated with an important industrial site, and a well-built length of early industrial quay wall. Included in Scheduled Ancient Monument GM481(GLA).
Interior
Dock and quay walls on River Tawe at former White Rock works of uncertain date. They were part of the stone quays and tidal basins, which by the early C19, almost continuously lined the 4.8km dredged and navigable length of the lower Afon Tawe. It would seem that there was a dock already here in 1737 when the copper works were built, this dock used by Thomas 2nd Baron Mansel for shipping coal, connected by the 'Great Coal Road' to the collieries at Llansamlet. The stonework has been altered over the years and was renovated in late C20 when the ruins of the works were landscaped.
Reason for designation
Included as an industrial dock of early date, presumably early C18, associated with an important industrial site, and a well-built length of early industrial quay wall. Included in Scheduled Ancient Monument GM481(GLA).
Nearby in the register
- White Rock Copper WorksCopper Worksunder 1 mi
- Former Vivian locomotive shedIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former Hafod Copperworks river quayIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Hafod Copper Works Musgrave Engine and RollsCopper Worksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.