Swindon Villa is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1988. House.
Swindon Villa
- WRENN ID
- other-roof-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swindon Villa, Withiel
- OS grid reference
- SW 997 639
- Coordinates
- 50.44076, -4.82138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swindon Villa is a railway carriage that has been converted into a house. It was brought to its current site around 1935 and is believed to be a late 19th century carriage from the Swindon works. The carriage features a corrugated iron roof with gable ends that sit over the curved carriage roof. Most of the window and door openings are original and intact, although some windows at the front have been blocked. There are no new openings, and the carriage retains its original doors and ventilators. Inside, the windows still have straps for raising and lowering, and the doors feature original hinges and locks. A small single-storey addition has been built at the rear, which helps protect that side of the carriage. All internal partitions remain, and it is said that the carriage was originally painted brown and cream. It is likely a Great Western Railway carriage, equipped with six or eight wheels and a bogey at each end.
Local climate
Swindon Villa receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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