Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11614
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
The Pump House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Waterfront / Y Glannau
Town
Locality
Pumphouse Quay
Easting
266008
Northing
192649
Street Side
Location
Very prominently sited on quayside adjoining locks between inner and outer basins of S Dock. Formerly known as "Power Station".
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Dated "SHT 1900", restored and altered 1985.
Exterior
2 storey industrial building, red brick with dark brick dressings, tall S tower (former accumulator?). Hipped slate roofs, projecting parapets and eaves with diagonal headers. Giant arch treatment to window bays, modern brickwork without dark dressings to W end; roll-moulded angles in dark brick to tower and adjoining bays. Oculi in blind panels to tower top, stonework band course and eaves, datestone with partly modern inscription at base, inset modern relief sculpture. Modern glazed lean-to extensions in angle to right, main entrance up modern steps.
3-bay rear elevation towards Gloucester Place with mostly original detailing, wall hand steps down to E with blind panels over 3-bay arcaded ground floor treatment. Further 3-bay arcaded and gabled elevation faces E.
Half length of bow-trussed girder swing-bridge (formerly operated by power from the Pump House) survives on quayside to SW.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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