Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11662
Building Number
11&12
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Telecom Building
Address
11&12 Wind Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
265801
Northing
192971
Street Side
Location
Forward to right of Old Post Office building with modern Head Post Office to right.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Ca 1900. Arts and Crafts Gothic.
Exterior
3 storey and attic, 4 window banded ashlar front, slate roof behind parapet with gabled centre. Griffin finial, 3 grouped cusped lights, stringcourse with headstops under (panel defaced). Moulded cornice, polygonal buttresses, fine Gothic traceried frieze over 1st floor, plain frieze over ground floor. 1st and 2nd floor windows linked vertically in segmental arched recesses (formerly with vertical mullions), glazing modernised. Arched ground floor openings with blocked architraves and rich stiff-leaf spandrel foliage; modern glazing retains scrolled pediments to fanlights, panelled pilasters, 6 panel door on left.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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