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
82483
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
09/02/2004  
Date of Amendment
09/02/2004  
Name of Property
Dock at former White Rock Copperworks and quay wall to N  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Swansea  
Community
St. Thomas  
Town
Swansea  
Locality
White Rock  
Easting
266284  
Northing
194676  
Street Side
 
Location
On the E bank of the Tawe on the W side of the site of the former White Rock Copperworks.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
Included as an industrial dock of early date, presumably early C18, associated with an important industrial site, and a well-built length of early industrial quay wall. Included in Scheduled Ancient Monument GM481(GLA).  

Interior
Dock and quay walls on River Tawe at former White Rock works of uncertain date. They were part of the stone quays and tidal basins, which by the early C19, almost continuously lined the 4.8km dredged and navigable length of the lower Afon Tawe. It would seem that there was a dock already here in 1737 when the copper works were built, this dock used by Thomas 2nd Baron Mansel for shipping coal, connected by the 'Great Coal Road' to the collieries at Llansamlet. The stonework has been altered over the years and was renovated in late C20 when the ruins of the works were landscaped.  

Reason for designation
Included as an industrial dock of early date, presumably early C18, associated with an important industrial site, and a well-built length of early industrial quay wall. Included in Scheduled Ancient Monument GM481(GLA).  

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