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
11612
Building Number
3
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/03/1986
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
3 Princess Way
Address
3 Princess Way
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
265728
Northing
192866
Street Side
Location
Set at angle to S end of dual carriageway, right gable end to Salubrious Place.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
1874-5: By J Bacon Fowler, architect, for Messrs Strick & Bellingham. Victorian Gothic style.
Exterior
3 storey office block, snecked rubble facings with (badly eroded) freestone dressings. Steep slate roofs with large gable forward on left, parapets with finials, stems of chimneys to left and centre removed above sloping seatings. 3 slits to banded gable, wide relieving arch over cusped tripartite window, blind heads with disc ornament and punched spandrel rosettes; plain chamfered openings on right; cill bands. 7 windows to 1st floor, paired under relieving arches with shouldered heads, roll-moulded arches and detailing as before, sash windows with some glazing bars. Shouldered windows to ground floor with decayed colonnettes etc, 2 modern doors, rendered gable end.
Interior
Interior retains openwell staircase of Baltic oak, Gothic newels and ironwork railings.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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