4, Emlyn Square is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. House.
4, Emlyn Square
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-rubble-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 4, Emlyn Square, South Swindon, SN1 5BP
- OS grid reference
- SU 146 847
- Coordinates
- 51.56184, -1.79059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 Emlyn Square is a house built in 1847 for the Great Western Railway Company as part of a village designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to accommodate the workforce for the new railway works. The village layout, based on Brunel's early drawings from 1840, features a grid pattern with 12 terraces in six blocks on either side of the High Street, now known as Emlyn Square. Construction began in 1842, and by 1855, most buildings were completed, although financial difficulties delayed the project.
The house is constructed from ashlar limestone and has a slate roof. It is two stories high with three bays. The central entrance features a four-panelled door that is half-glazed. The ground floor has four-pane sash windows set within chamfered ashlar surrounds, complete with label moulding. Above the door, there are chamfered slit windows. This house is similar in design to No. 2 Emlyn Square. The village is recognized as one of Britain's best-preserved and architecturally ambitious railway settlements.
Local climate
4, 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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