The Belvedere is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 January 1989. Prospect tower.
The Belvedere
- WRENN ID
- veiled-finial-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1989
- Type
- Prospect tower
- Address
- The Belvedere, Sketty
- OS grid reference
- SS 614 920
- Coordinates
- 51.61049, -4.00159
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Belvedere is a Grade II listed Gothick prospect tower built in an octagonal shape, designed to resemble a medieval chapter house. The structure features rubble-faced walls with dressed freestone detailing and a taller polygonal stair turret at the northwest angle. It has panelled parapets, which are broken, above an eaves stringcourse, and diagonal corner buttresses with set-offs. The tower includes pointed chamfered lights with dripmoulds and Y-tracery facing the road. On the west side, there is a tall blocked chamfered archway and a pointed blocked doorway leading to the stair turret, which has a corbelled top and cross loops.
At the time of inspection, the building was in derelict condition. Inside, there is a remarkable vaulted interior featuring a central ribbed pier and wall shafts that support slender ribs leading to centralized brick vaults.
Local climate
The Belvedere sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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