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
11656
Building Number
6
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
6 Wind Street
Address
6 Wind Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Swansea
Easting
265751
Northing
192989
Street Side
Location
In a mixed group of commercial buildings leading up to the Castle.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Dated 1897. English Renaissance style.
Exterior
3 storey and attic, 3-bay ashlar front; paired pilasters. Doric: Ionic: Corinthian (ground to top storey). Outer splayed bays through upper storeys, bracket eaves with balustraded parapets, open pediment treatment with urn finial and twin swagged pilasters to attic lunette, outer dormers with segmental heads in steep slate roof, end brick stacks. Stone mullioned and transomed bays, head and date cartouches to 1st floor frieze, triglyph frieze with outer bays and centre balcony cantilevered on brackets over 5-bay ground floor with arched openings. Double outer panelled doors with segmental pediments to fanlights.
Interior
Good cantilevered dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and finials.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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