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Latitude: 51.6167 / 51°37'0"N
Longitude: -3.9367 / 3°56'12"W
OS Eastings: 266008
OS Northings: 192649
OS Grid: SS660926
Mapcode National: GBR WT0.ZJ
Mapcode Global: VH4K9.QM5J
Plus Code: 9C3RJ387+M8
Entry Name: The Pump House
Listing Date: 30 March 1987
Last Amended: 30 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11614
Building Class: Industrial
Also known as: Pump House
The Pump House, Swansea
ID on this website: 300011614
Location: Very prominently sited on quayside adjoining locks between inner and outer basins of S Dock. Formerly known as "Power Station".
County: Swansea
Community: Castle (Castell)
Community: Waterfront / Y Glannau
Locality: Pumphouse Quay
Built-Up Area: Swansea
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Pub Pumping station
Dated "SHT 1900", restored and altered 1985.
2 storey industrial building, red brick with dark brick dressings, tall S tower (former accumulator?). Hipped slate roofs, projecting parapets and eaves with diagonal headers. Giant arch treatment to window bays, modern brickwork without dark dressings to W end; roll-moulded angles in dark brick to tower and adjoining bays. Oculi in blind panels to tower top, stonework band course and eaves, datestone with partly modern inscription at base, inset modern relief sculpture. Modern glazed lean-to extensions in angle to right, main entrance up modern steps.
3-bay rear elevation towards Gloucester Place with mostly original detailing, wall hand steps down to E with blind panels over 3-bay arcaded ground floor treatment. Further 3-bay arcaded and gabled elevation faces E.
Half length of bow-trussed girder swing-bridge (formerly operated by power from the Pump House) survives on quayside to SW.
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