A part of Swansea's rich industrial history is going to auction and you could have the opportunity to live there.
Nestled amongst modern blocks of flats next to the River Tawe in Phoebe Road, Copper Quarter, the former smelting hall is likely to have been built over two centuries ago.
Over the years, the industry that made Swansea a world-leader in copper died out and the area around the hall was developed with modern residential blocks and roads.
The historic smelting hall will be auctioned on December 8 by Cardiff-based auctioneers Seel & Co, with a guide price of £225,000.
Planning permission for 12 apartments to be built in the smelting hall was granted in 2018.
They will likely have views of Kilvey Hill and the River Tawe, and the smelting hall is not far from the Liberty Stadium and Morfa Shopping Park.
The plans show that the building could contain six two-bedroom apartments on the ground floor, two two-bedroom apartments on the first floor as well as a further four two-bedroom maisonettes on the first and second floors.
Outside there are plans for landscaping and allocated parking space for each apartment.
The building stands next to the cycle lane and path which runs from the centre of Swansea as far as Pontardawe and beyond.
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The structure was built as part of the Upper Bank Copper Works, founded in the mid-18th century by a merchant from London, Chauncey Townsend.
The hall would have been used initially for the smelting of lead and zinc and then for copper-smelting around 1775, as the industry dominated the Swansea landscape.
Upper Bank Copper Works closed in 1928 and its remaining structures were later used as part of a munitions factory, before being incorporated into the Addis Plastics Factory.
The smelting hall is described as a "rare survival" of a smelting hall from the era by Cadw.
A description on the Cadw listing states the structure is: "Extremely important in the context of the industrial history of the lower Swansea valley."
It forms part of a complex of buildings which remain from Swansea's industrial past, including the Hafod Morfa Copperworks a little further down the river which is being developed and reopened as a visitor centre and whiskey distillery.
The area is full of remnants of the era, with the smelting shed being not far from the White Rock works, the remains of which can still be seen above and below ground to this day.
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The smelting shed will be auctioned on December 8 by Seel & Co.
Details of the planning permission are available on the Swansea Council planning portal using reference 2017/2646/FUL
