Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
81961
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/10/2003
Date of Amendment
22/10/2003
Name of Property
Quay walls at former Upper Bank Works
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Bonymaen
Town
Swansea
Locality
Morfa
Easting
266533
Northing
195270
Street Side
Location
On the E bank of the Afon Tawe some 350m NE of the junction of the A4217 and Foxhole Road.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Quay walls, part of the stone quays and tidal basins, which by the early C19, almost continuously lined the 4.8km dredged and navigable length of the lower Afon Tawe. This quay enabled sea-going vessels to service the Upper Bank Works on the E side of the river. The works were founded mid C18 by London merchant Chauncey Townsend initially smelting lead and zinc. The main activity changed to copper-smelting around 1775 and, as a result of George Muntz patenting ''yellow metal'' for the sheathing of ships, zinc-smelting was reintroduced on a large-scale in 1838-42. The works closed in 1928.
Exterior
Quay walls of squared rubble stone originally with rounded slag coping. Some 100m in length with curve in one third of way along and at the S end, the curves serving to angle the quay out of the river current. Only a short length at the N end has original copings.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as early industrial quay walls and for group value with Morfa bridge and quay.
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