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
22547
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/10/1999
Date of Amendment
29/10/1999
Name of Property
Clock Tower at Clyne Castle
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Mumbles
Town
Swansea
Locality
Clyne Castle
Easting
261407
Northing
190683
Street Side
Location
On the NE side of the Clyne Castle
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Built in the late C19 or early C20 and first shown on the 1918 Ordnance Survey map. Clyne Castle had been purchased by William Graham Vivian in 1860, one of the prominent Swansea family of industrialists. Vivian extensively remodelled the house and was probably responsible for building the clock tower in the service yard before his death in 1912. The house was subsequently inherited by Dulcie Charlotte Vivian, and then by Admiral Walker-Heneage-Vivian. On the latter's death in 1952 the Clyne Castle estate was purchased by the Borough of Swansea. The house and the grounds immediately adjacent were acquired by University College Swansea (1955), for use as student hall of residence.
Exterior
A narrow round tower of rubble stone with an embattled parapet on a corbel table. A low doorway on the N side has a pointed head and a ribbed door. Above the doorway is a string course. The spiral stairs is lit by 3 narrow slit windows. The clock face, facing the yard to the N of the house, is black with gilded letters and is by Leroy & Son of London.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Clyne Castle and other associated listed items.
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