Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11552
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Swansea Working Men's Club & Institute
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
265531
Northing
193492
Street Side
Location
Set into slope on corner of Quarry Street.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
Dated 1885. Architect not known. French Second Empire style.
Exterior
Tall, symmetrical 3 storey and attic, 3 bay front to Alexandra Road, pale stone dressings with red brick facings. Advanced centre bay under segmental pediment supporting elaborate dormer with broken sinuous pediment and finial, bipartite window set against curved and leaded platform roof with ornamental ironwork. Outer pedimented dormers set into hipped slate roof. Dentilled eaves, impost and cill bands, long-and-short quoins, banded rustication to lower storeys of centre bay.
Tripartite window over 2-light traceried 1st floor window to centre bay, paired outer windows; all round-headed with keyblocked architraves, roll-moulded and fluted jambs, carved roundels to 1st floor spandrels. Entablature and part-fluted pilasters to centre doorcase, panelled doors up steps.
Similar treatment to long side elevation stepped uphill in Quarry Street, pedimented frontispiece with offset panelled chimney-stack to dormer, bipartite window over doorway,
7-bay elevation to right.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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