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
14567
Building Number
3
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/07/1994
Date of Amendment
25/07/1994
Name of Property
3 Eden Avenue
Address
3 Eden Avenue
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Uplands
Town
Locality
Easting
263668
Northing
193133
Street Side
W
Location
On SW corner of Eden Avenue and Glanmor Road, behind stone garden wall.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Pair of semi-detached houses of circa 1913. In style of Glendinning Moxham.
Exterior
Red tiled roof, pebble-dashed first floor over red brick and pebble-dash ground floor, bathstone dressings. Central chimney, and tall end chimneys, pebbledashed. Casement windows with square lead cames, some stained glass.
To attics, two half-timbered gabled dormers, 3-light windows. Each house has, to centre first floor, two 3-light wooden casement windows, ground floor broad red-tiled hipped roof to porch with 3-light window to centre, entrance door towards ends of porch between bathstone pillars. R house has, to R, 2-storey splayed bay window under half-timbered gable. L house has to L of front elevation two-storey square bay window with 5 lights to front (bay under half-timbered gable).
End elevation of No 1, has projecting gabled block with chimney; on first floor, two 2-light oriel windows under red-tiled roof. On ground floor further projecting gabled projection in red brick. Two round-headed windows under bands of purple tiles, bathstone keystones. To L of chimney, half-timbered attic dormer, first floor 3-light casement window. Roof sweeps down to L (tall chimney), one 2-light, one 3-light ground floor windows. Rear of pair has 2 gables with 3 small pane windows, between which two 3-light casements (1 to each house).
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as good well-preserved example of early C20 housing.
Group value.
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