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
19323
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/02/1998
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Former Mumbles Railway Electricity Sub-Station
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Mumbles
Town
Swansea
Locality
Blackpill
Easting
261916
Northing
190573
Street Side
E
Location
To S of car park to Clyne Valley Country Park. Between Mumbles Road and sea.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Built in 1927 (date on building) by Ernest Morgan, architect, for the Swansea & Mumbles Railway. The building contained two 500kW rotary converters (removed) which converted 6600V alternating current to 650V direct current to operate trams of the Swansea & Mumbles Railway by overhead wires. The building also served as Blackpill Station. The Railway had originated by an Act of 1804, and is claimed to have been the earliest passenger railway in the world, running a regular passenger service from 1807 until 1960.
Exterior
An electricity sub-station of brown brick with concrete dressings, and flat roof behind a plain parapet. Round-arched windows have an impost band and small-pane metal glazing with marginal lights. Facing the road (to W) are 5 windows, while to the L end is a doorway with its hood removed and a louvred vent over. In the S end wall are 2 lunettes and a broad doorway to the L. Facing the sea is a 6-bay Tuscan portico, above which are 2 lunettes and, in the parapet, a raised field inscribed 'Blackpill'. The N elevation has 2 lunettes.
Interior
The machinery removed but the interior retains its tiled floor and I-beams to the ceiling.
Reason for designation
Listed as the only substantial remaining structure of the Swansea & Mumbles Railway.
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