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
11691
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
03/01/1980  
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987  
Name of Property
Canteen Building at the Former Yorkshire Imperial Metalworks  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Swansea  
Community
Landore  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
266131  
Northing
195156  
Street Side
 
Location
Set away from main road and reached under railway, entrance to works was formerly across Swansea Canal.  

Description


Broad Class
Industrial  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
Late C19. Former power house building to Morfa Copper Works. Rubble walls with quoins and freestone dressings. Wide slate roof with gambrel treatment to E end, continues down over side aisles, long glazed roof-lights. Remains of clock tower with trapezoidal base (formerly louvered with clock faces, weathervane etc.). Two stone chimney stacks with cornice to right, vents along ridge. E gable end has tall rounded-head window with glazing-bars over segmentally-headed doorway (blocked); this centre bay flanged by segmental windows with glazing bars above wide modern windows (blocked). Front walls of side aisles canted back, each with (blocked)segmental openings on ground floor. Fine aisled interior of 4 bays with composite timber and iron trusses (basically queen post construction), circular cast-iron spandrels between collar and ironwork. Gothic braces supported by slender, reeded cast-iron columns with capitals. Tension braces and ties of wrought-iron and compression members of cast-iron.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Derelict at time of inspection (Spring 1986) Group value.  

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