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
11614
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/03/1987  
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987  
Name of Property
The Pump House  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Swansea  
Community
Waterfront / Y Glannau  
Town
 
Locality
Pumphouse Quay  
Easting
266008  
Northing
192649  
Street Side
 
Location
Very prominently sited on quayside adjoining locks between inner and outer basins of S Dock. Formerly known as "Power Station".  

Description


Broad Class
Industrial  
Period
 

History
Dated "SHT 1900", restored and altered 1985.  

Exterior
2 storey industrial building, red brick with dark brick dressings, tall S tower (former accumulator?). Hipped slate roofs, projecting parapets and eaves with diagonal headers. Giant arch treatment to window bays, modern brickwork without dark dressings to W end; roll-moulded angles in dark brick to tower and adjoining bays. Oculi in blind panels to tower top, stonework band course and eaves, datestone with partly modern inscription at base, inset modern relief sculpture. Modern glazed lean-to extensions in angle to right, main entrance up modern steps. 3-bay rear elevation towards Gloucester Place with mostly original detailing, wall hand steps down to E with blind panels over 3-bay arcaded ground floor treatment. Further 3-bay arcaded and gabled elevation faces E. Half length of bow-trussed girder swing-bridge (formerly operated by power from the Pump House) survives on quayside to SW.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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