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
11598
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/03/1987  
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987  
Name of Property
Maritime & Industrial Museum  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Swansea  
Community
Waterfront / Y Glannau  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
265872  
Northing
192618  
Street Side
 
Location
On N quayside of S Dock, close to end of Burrows Place. Former dock warehouse.  

Description


Broad Class
Recreational  
Period
 

History
After 1897, recent alterations for museum. Red brick, slate roofs.  

Exterior
Long 2 storey elevation facing S Dock. Pilaster treatment, double pilasters 4 bays from W (where small extension added?); plinth and eaves course with diagonal headers. Alternating bays with arched bipartite windows and wide segmental arches (sliding doors inside ground floor openings). Modern 1st floor cantilevered walkway with double escape stairs. W entrance gable with stepped and corbelled eaves, modern bargeboards; traceried oculus and lunette windows to upper floor, lean-to canopy with fretted valence and cast-iron columns to ground floor, segmental glazed openings under. Wider E gable with large upper arched recess with oculus flanked by arched openings, projecting cill band, twin segmental ground floor openings with open ground floor under girder to right. Rear elevation steps out near W end to provide a projecting upper floor with horizontal girders supported by ironwork columns and Corinthian capitals, railway siding under. Twin arched windows in stepped recessed panels over.  

Interior
Interior retains open boarded roof with lightweight metal trusses; main floor of fireproof construction with cross-girders on central lattice stanchions, shallow segmental plates between. Interiors subdivided.  

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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