Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11652
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Former GWR Revetment Walls along N side of South Dock
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Waterfront / Y Glannau
Town
Locality
Swansea
Easting
265652
Northing
192560
Street Side
Location
Running from W of Maritime Museum and to rear of modern housing on N quayside.
Description
Broad Class
Maritime
Period
History
Between ca1859 (when S Dock opened) and 1876-7. S Dock line was originally built by Harbour Trustees and leased to South Wales Railway in 1862 and absorbed by Great Western Railway in 1865.
Exterior
Long section of snecked rubble revetment wall with six multi-arched bastions at irregular intervals (formerly the abutments for elevated rail decks to coaling towers at dock edge). Ramped treatment to plain sections. Plain parapets (partly rebuilt) above band course, voussoir treatment to arch rings, ramped fields. E end of wall is splayed back to NE with external stair (modern concrete treads and metal handrail) and ends on grassy embankment immediately S of Leisure Centre. (Arched elevated track way formerly ran on past Victoria Station.) Occasional arched pedestrian ways run through arches under former railway embankment; wide parabolic arch towards W end where wall steps back from angled bastion with single arch and continues briefly at set-back line.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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