Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11633
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Swansea County Court & Offices
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
265642
Northing
192901
Street Side
Location
On corner with Princess Way, immediately S of St Mary’s Churchyard.
Description
Broad Class
Civil
Period
History
Dated 1908. Queen Anne Revival.
Exterior
2 storey and attics, red brick with Bath stone dressings including banding. Slate roof with ridge stack to right and front stack on splayed angle to left; moulded corbel with elaborate cartouche, diagonal pilasters, volute supports and moulded cornice.
Attic storey behind parapet with stone window frames, 5-bay N front with stone cornice to parapet, bowed centre bay with 3-light mullioned upper window under cornice, small pane glazing, carved Royal arms "ERVII" in ashlar field over arched hood to bowed entrance. Foliage corbels, egg-and-dart cornice, convex architrave, double recessed doors under inscribed tympanum. Side bays with cross windows to upper floor, 3-light ground-floor windows, all with cornices, impost bands and moulded cills.
3 storey, 2 window elevation to Princess Way with parapeted gable and segmental pediment to capping, smaller corbelled chimney stack to left with carved angel supporter. 2 and 3-light windows as before, horizontal linkage on top floor. Plainer extension to left with doorway up steps.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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