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
11618
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/1984
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Clock Tower & Administration Block to Former Swansea Hospital
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
264611
Northing
192695
Street Side
Location
Set well back from road junction at W end of St Helen’s Road. Important townscape element in context of largely small-scale terraces.
Description
Broad Class
Health and Welfare
Period
History
Erected 1865-78 restoration 1985-6. Designed by Alexander Graham, architect of London. Free classicism.
Exterior
Surviving portion of Swansea Infirmary. 3 storey symmetrical block, snecked rubble facings and freestone dressings, hipped tiled roofs, lower to sides. Ironwork railings to centre platform roof with clock tower under pyramidal spirelet with finials, tall flanking chimneys.
Bracket cornice, 6-light arcade to top floor windows, bandcourses; 3 arched lights below with ironwork balcony cantilevered on brackets. Single window-bays (tripartites to top floor) set back to sides. (All glazing removed at time of inspection, spring 1986.) Central pair of doors under deep plain fanlight, flight of steps up. 4 window flank to Phillips Parade, rebuilt rear elevation.
Interior
Reason for designation
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