Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
14601
Building Number
7
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/07/1994
Date of Amendment
25/07/1994
Name of Property
NO 7, ST JAMES CRESCENT,,,,,WEST GLAMORGAN,
Address
7 St James Crescent
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Uplands
Town
Locality
Easting
264273
Northing
192957
Street Side
Location
To NW of ST James’ Church, slightly above road, behind shallow garden.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Italianate house of circa 1870, now offices.
Exterior
Stucco, with stucco quoins and band course at first floor sill levels, slate roof with bracketed eaves, rendered chimneys; horned sash glazing. Two storey block to L, (small gabled dormer in roof), three storey projecting gabled wing to R; banded pilaster strips to angles. Left block has central bay flanked by pilasters, slightly at impost level; double-leaf doors and overlight, balustrade over; first floor round-headed window with moulded surround above, and string at imposts level; dentil cornice over. Outer bays each have on first floor, paired camber-headed windows in moulded surrounds, band course at sill level, on ground floor, splayed bay window with scrolled brackets at angles.
Gabled wing has round-headed horned sash window to second floor, Venetian window to first floor, splayed bay window with scrolled brackets at angles on ground floor. Left return has ground floor open loggia with Doric pillars.
Interior
Reason for designation
Almost unaltered example of mid-Victorian villa.
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