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Latitude: 51.6623 / 51°39'44"N
Longitude: -3.9237 / 3°55'25"W
OS Eastings: 267043
OS Northings: 197695
OS Grid: SS670976
Mapcode National: GBR WW1.0K
Mapcode Global: VH4K3.YH11
Plus Code: 9C3RM36G+WG
Entry Name: Danbert House (former Employment Exchange)
Listing Date: 30 September 1993
Last Amended: 30 September 1993
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11741
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300011741
Location: On NE corner of Morfydd Street and Market Street.
County: Swansea
Community: Morriston (Treforys)
Community: Morriston
Built-Up Area: Swansea
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Architectural structure
House of 1880s; built for, and probably designed by Daniel Edwards (1835-1915), tinplate manufacturer of Morriston; 'Danbert' was a brand name for a type of tinplate made at Edwards' Dyffryn Works. House construction not completed due to bankruptcy of builder, and Edwards never lived there.
Three storeys plus attics, painted smooth render with painted quoins and banded ground floor, moulded architraves; some exposed bathstone dressings and dormers; slate roof with bracketed eaves cornice, brick chimneys.
Morfydd Street front of three bays has two attic gables, each with round-headed window, between which is bathstone dormer with paired windows beneath pediment surmounted by urn. Central bay has paired round-headed window to each floor. Outer bays have triple round-headed window to second floor, below which is, to each bay, two-storey splayed bay with small-pane horned sash glazing.
To L, two gables each with round-headed window; round-headed windows to second floor; shouldered-arched windows to first floor including stair windows
flat-roofed ground floor extension.
To R (E), elevation similar to W but has single-storey porch with steps up to exposed bathstone entrance flanked by columns; shouldered-arched windows to side and rear. Rear (N) elevation in similar style to S, but pair of gables is set to L, and bathstone dormer to R.
House set behind low brick wall; yellow brick to W with sea-worn limestone capping; common brick to S with stone copings.
Included as well-preserved example of large Victorian town house, rare in Morriston.
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