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
11647
Building Number
10
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Tavern PH & Ye Olde Wine Shoppe
Address
10 Union Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Swansea
Easting
265350
Northing
192996
Street Side
Location
Near corner with Oxford Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Remodelled ca 1900. Arts and Crafts style.
Exterior
3 storey and attic narrow gabled frontage, black and white treatment. Slate roofs with cross-gable, bargeboards, 2-light attic window with small-pane casements. Projecting moulded eaves cornice with ironwork brackets. 2 storey centre bay with stringcourses and lean-to fishscale tiled side roofs on scrolled brackets. 4-light windows per storey, small-pane casements under transoms, fleur-de-lys brace-plates.
Animal head-corbels over ground floor segmental arch with recessed small-pane bowed bar front with flanking doors. Nailhead studded doors with ironwork plates and strapwork hinges. Various ironwork brackets including octagonal lantern over entrance.
Interior
Retains contemporary half-timber fittings including grotesque head-corbels, quatrefoil and arched panels, open balustered staircase, beamed ceilings etc.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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