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Latitude: 51.6105 / 51°36'37"N
Longitude: -4.0016 / 4°0'5"W
OS Eastings: 261501
OS Northings: 192082
OS Grid: SS615920
Mapcode National: GBR GX.CGM2
Mapcode Global: VH4K8.LSD8
Plus Code: 9C3QJX6X+59
Entry Name: The Belvedere
Listing Date: 27 January 1989
Last Amended: 15 November 1993
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11761
Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
ID on this website: 300011761
Location: Ornamental garden building on small overgrown hillock to SW of road, formerly in parkland of (demolished) Sketty Park House.
County: Swansea
Community: Sketty (Sgeti)
Community: Sketty
Built-Up Area: Swansea
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Probably designed by William Jernagen, architect, of Swansea, who designed Sketty Park House (1806).
Gothick prospect tower of octagonal plan (imitating medieval chapter house). Rubble-faced walls with droved freestone dressing, taller polygonal stair turret to NW angle. Panelled parapets (broken) over eaves stringcourse, diagonal corner buttresses with set-offs, pointed chamfered lights with dripmoulds, Y-tracery facing road. Tall (blocked) chamfered archway on W side; pointed (blocked) doorway to stair turret with corbelled top and cross loops.
In derelict condition at time of inspection.
Remarkable vaulted interior with central ribbed pier and wall shafts supporting slender ribs to centralised brick vaults.
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