1, 2 and 3, London Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. Residential. 1 related planning application.

1, 2 and 3, London Street

WRENN ID
tall-step-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 February 1970
Type
Residential
Address
1, 2 and 3, London Street, South Swindon, SN1 5DG
OS grid reference
SU 145 848
Coordinates
51.56234, -1.79082
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Two houses in terrace, later divided into three dwellings, were built in 1846 for the Great Western Railway Company. They were constructed as part of a new village designed by I.K. Brunel to house workers for the Great Western Railway works, situated south of the railway line. Construction began in 1842, with the cottages west of Emlyn Square being built first (1842-1843), followed by those on the east side (1845-1847). The remainder of the cottages were completed between 1853 and 1855. The village is notable as one of Britain's best-preserved and most ambitious railway settlements.

The houses are constructed of coursed squared limestone rubble, with a coursed rubble rear wall. They have asbestos slate roofs and ashlar stacks with rendered diagonal shafts on the party wall and right gable. Number 1 is a two-storey, three-bay dwelling with a central door leading to a hallway, two rooms deep, and a 20th-century outbuilding to the rear. Numbers 2 and 3 are single-bay dwellings each with an inset entrance. They feature a low plinth, chamfered two-pane casement windows, and door surrounds with pyramidal stops. All ground floor openings have label moulds. The houses now have 20th-century fifteen-pane doors and four-pane sashes.

Local climate

1, 2 and 3, London Street 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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