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
11633
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/03/1987  
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987  
Name of Property
Swansea County Court & Offices  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Swansea  
Community
Castle  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
265642  
Northing
192901  
Street Side
 
Location
On corner with Princess Way, immediately S of St Mary’s Churchyard.  

Description


Broad Class
Civil  
Period
 

History
Dated 1908. Queen Anne Revival.  

Exterior
2 storey and attics, red brick with Bath stone dressings including banding. Slate roof with ridge stack to right and front stack on splayed angle to left; moulded corbel with elaborate cartouche, diagonal pilasters, volute supports and moulded cornice. Attic storey behind parapet with stone window frames, 5-bay N front with stone cornice to parapet, bowed centre bay with 3-light mullioned upper window under cornice, small pane glazing, carved Royal arms "ERVII" in ashlar field over arched hood to bowed entrance. Foliage corbels, egg-and-dart cornice, convex architrave, double recessed doors under inscribed tympanum. Side bays with cross windows to upper floor, 3-light ground-floor windows, all with cornices, impost bands and moulded cills. 3 storey, 2 window elevation to Princess Way with parapeted gable and segmental pediment to capping, smaller corbelled chimney stack to left with carved angel supporter. 2 and 3-light windows as before, horizontal linkage on top floor. Plainer extension to left with doorway up steps.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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