3 and 4, Church Place is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. Residential.
3 and 4, Church Place
- WRENN ID
- open-column-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1970
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 3 and 4, Church Place, South Swindon, SN1 5ED
- OS grid reference
- SU 144 846
- Coordinates
- 51.5608, -1.79312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 3 and 4, Church Place are a terrace of cottages built between 1853 and 1854 for the Great Western Railway Company as part of a village designed to house workers for the Great Western Railway works. The cottages were constructed of ashlar limestone with Flemish bond brick rear walls, and have slate roofs with ashlar stacks on the party walls. They are two storeys high and one room deep, with two bays per cottage. Each cottage has a central segmental pointed archway, chamfered, over the entry to the rear access and over the central entrance to the cottage itself, with a C20 eighteen-pane door beneath a bracketed canopy. The windows have chamfered surrounds and C20 casements with rounded top corners. There is a single-light window above the door, now blocked. Gablets are situated over the entry and end bays. The appearance is similar to that of Nos. 1 and 2 Church Place. These cottages represent one of Britain’s best-preserved and most ambitious railway settlements.
Local climate
3 and 4, Church Place 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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