Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11597
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Technical College Building
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
265182
Northing
193519
Street Side
Location
Occupying a commanding angle site near the brow of the hill. Bryn-Syfi Terrace to side and rear.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Early C20. Architect not known.
Exterior
Tudor Gothic style. Red brick with Portland stone dressings. 4 storey entrance tower with diagonal buttresses, crenellated parapet with corner pilasters and stripwork surrounding twin bell-openings. Large square-headed 4-light mullioned and transomed windows below dripmoulds, small-pane glazing. Doorframe with fine heraldic panel and inscribed lintel over 4-centred archway with paterae to deep mouldings, trefoils to spandrels. Flight of steps up flanked by parapets with ironwork lamp standards.
4 storey ranges continue along road with stepped and angled elevation; plain parapets, cross-windows with dripmoulds, small-pane glazing. Fine group of brickwork chimneys with spiral, chevron and other Tudor mouldings above parapets.
Similar treatment to E flank which also has a 3 window arched bridge spanning the road to meet older building (not of special interest).
Interior
Reason for designation
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