Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11761
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/01/1989
Date of Amendment
15/11/1993
Name of Property
The Belvedere
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Sketty
Town
Locality
Easting
261501
Northing
192082
Street Side
SW
Location
Ornamental garden building on small overgrown hillock to SW of road, formerly in parkland of (demolished) Sketty Park House.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Probably designed by William Jernagen, architect, of Swansea, who designed Sketty Park House (1806).
Exterior
Gothick prospect tower of octagonal plan (imitating medieval chapter house). Rubble-faced walls with droved freestone dressing, taller polygonal stair turret to NW angle. Panelled parapets (broken) over eaves stringcourse, diagonal corner buttresses with set-offs, pointed chamfered lights with dripmoulds, Y-tracery facing road. Tall (blocked) chamfered archway on W side; pointed (blocked) doorway to stair turret with corbelled top and cross loops.
In derelict condition at time of inspection.
Interior
Remarkable vaulted interior with central ribbed pier and wall shafts supporting slender ribs to centralised brick vaults.
Reason for designation
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