3A-3F, Emlyn Square is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. A Nineteenth Century Residential.

3A-3F, Emlyn Square

WRENN ID
silent-pavement-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 February 1970
Type
Residential
Period
Nineteenth Century
Address
3A-3F, Emlyn Square, South Swindon, SN1 5BP
OS grid reference
SU 146 848
Coordinates
51.56193, -1.79062
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 3A-3F Emlyn Square is a pair of commercial premises, now converted into flats, built in 1847 for the Great Western Railway Company. Designed as part of a village created by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to accommodate workers for the railway works, the construction of this area began in 1842 and continued into the 1850s. The buildings are made of ashlar limestone with a slate roof, featuring two storeys and three bays. They have a heavy moulded continuous hood moulding over the ground floor openings and casement windows with top long lights, all set within chamfered ashlar surrounds. Notably, there is no gable at the splayed corner, and the building returns to Oxford Street. This structure is similar in style to No. 1 Emlyn Square. The village is recognized as one of Britain’s best-preserved and architecturally ambitious railway settlements.

Local climate

3A-3F, Emlyn Square receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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