Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11559
Building Number
5
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Former Assembly Rooms
Address
5 Cambrian Place
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Waterfront / Y Glannau
Town
Locality
Easting
266070
Northing
192801
Street Side
Location
In terraced group stepping down from Pembroke Buildings on left.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
After 1810. Designed by William Jernegan, architect of Swansea.
Exterior
Wide 2 storey and basement 5 bay façade, cement rendered upper floor, exposed rusticated blocks to ground floor facings behind Tuscan colonnade (formerly a loggia). Hipped slate roof, wide eaves, panelled pilasters and channelled rustication to outer 1st floor window bays, incised panels over centre bays. Plain margins to small-frame sash windows, incised aprons. Panelled end pilasters to ground floor, boarded small-pane windows, channelled voussoirs, segmental arch to centre doorway up steps. Area railings removed.
2 storey cemented rear elevation with hipped slate roof; 1st floor with 2 small-pane sashes to left, cantilevered 3-light bay to right. Arched doorway up steps with oculus to left.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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