Technical College Building is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. College building.

Technical College Building

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
College building
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Tudor Gothic style. Red brick with Portland stone dressings. 4 storey entrance tower with diagonal buttresses, crenellated parapet with corner pilasters and stripwork surrounding twin bell-openings. Large square-headed 4-light mullioned and transomed windows below dripmoulds, small-pane glazing. Doorframe with fine heraldic panel and inscribed lintel over 4-centred archway with paterae to deep mouldings, trefoils to spandrels. Flight of steps up flanked by parapets with ironwork lamp standards.

4 storey ranges continue along road with stepped and angled elevation; plain parapets, cross-windows with dripmoulds, small-pane glazing. Fine group of brickwork chimneys with spiral, chevron and other Tudor mouldings above parapets.

Similar treatment to E flank which also has a 3 window arched bridge spanning the road to meet older building (not of special interest).

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