2, Faringdon Road is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. House.
2, Faringdon Road
- WRENN ID
- vast-banister-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2, Faringdon Road, South Swindon, SN1 5BJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 147 848
- Coordinates
- 51.56202, -1.78876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Faringdon Road is a house in a terrace built in 1862 for the Great Western Railway Company. It is constructed of ashlar limestone set in black mortar and features a slate roof with brick gable stacks. The house is two storeys high and has one bay, with a through side passage and is two rooms deep. There is a 20th-century rear addition. The property has chamfered door and window surrounds, a fifteen-pane door, and four-pane sash windows.
This house is part of a village designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to accommodate workers for the Great Western Railway, with construction starting in 1842 and most buildings completed by 1855. The village is noted for its architectural ambition and preservation, making it one of Britain’s best-preserved railway settlements.
Local climate
2, Faringdon Road 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
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