Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
11741
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1993
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Danbert House (former Employment Exchange)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Morriston
Town
Locality
Easting
267043
Northing
197695
Street Side
N
Location
On NE corner of Morfydd Street and Market Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
House of 1880s; built for, and probably designed by Daniel Edwards (1835-1915), tinplate manufacturer of Morriston; 'Danbert' was a brand name for a type of tinplate made at Edwards' Dyffryn Works. House construction not completed due to bankruptcy of builder, and Edwards never lived there.
Exterior
Three storeys plus attics, painted smooth render with painted quoins and banded ground floor, moulded architraves; some exposed bathstone dressings and dormers; slate roof with bracketed eaves cornice, brick chimneys.
Morfydd Street front of three bays has two attic gables, each with round-headed window, between which is bathstone dormer with paired windows beneath pediment surmounted by urn. Central bay has paired round-headed window to each floor. Outer bays have triple round-headed window to second floor, below which is, to each bay, two-storey splayed bay with small-pane horned sash glazing.
To L, two gables each with round-headed window; round-headed windows to second floor; shouldered-arched windows to first floor including stair windows
flat-roofed ground floor extension.
To R (E), elevation similar to W but has single-storey porch with steps up to exposed bathstone entrance flanked by columns; shouldered-arched windows to side and rear. Rear (N) elevation in similar style to S, but pair of gables is set to L, and bathstone dormer to R.
House set behind low brick wall; yellow brick to W with sea-worn limestone capping; common brick to S with stone copings.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as well-preserved example of large Victorian town house, rare in Morriston.
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