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
22554
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/10/1999
Date of Amendment
29/10/1999
Name of Property
2 Southend Villas
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Mumbles
Town
Swansea
Locality
Southend
Easting
262316
Northing
187714
Street Side
S
Location
Approximately 0.75km SE of Oystermouth church facing the sea front.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Interior
Number 2 occupies the middle storey of the original house.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 villa, of a type once common on the W side of Swansea Bay, retaining original character.
Group Description
1, 2 and 3 Southend Villas
Built in the 2nd quarter of the C19 and shown on the 1844 Oystermouth Tithe map. The house became the Southend Hotel in the C20 and was divided into 3 apartments late C20.
A Regency style 3-storey, 3-bay house with stuccoed front and renewed slate roof (the stacks have been taken down). The symmetrical front has hornless sash windows with margin lights inserted into original openings. In the upper storey the windows have stressed keystones. In the middle storey are thin moulded architraves and sill band. In the lower storey are similar thin moulded architraves. The central doorway has a doorcase with pilasters, an open pediment on consoles, and a replaced panelled door with a plain overlight.
The R side wall, and an added single-bay projection set back, have modern windows. The L side wall has steps beneath an added narrow extension (attached to the Pilot public house), leading up to an inserted 1st-floor doorway. To the higher ground at the rear is an added 1-storey gabled projection at the level of the upper storey of the main house, beneath which are rooms in the lower storeys built into the bank.
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