18a-18e, Emlyn Square is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. House, flats.
18a-18e, Emlyn Square
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- House, flats
- Address
- 18a-18e, Emlyn Square, South Swindon, SN1 5BN
- OS grid reference
- SU 145 848
- Coordinates
- 51.56191, -1.79188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18a-18e Emlyn Square is a house that has been converted into flats, built between 1845 and 1846 for the Great Western Railway Company. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and features a slate roof. It is a three-storey corner block with one bay facing Emlyn Square and a two-bay return to Bristol Street, with the corner splayed. The entrance is located in a two-storey extension. The window surrounds are chamfered and stone quoined, with twenty-pane casements on the ground floor, sixteen-pane above, and eight-pane on the splay, all featuring label moulds. Each gable has keyed oeils de boeuf. The architectural details are similar to those of No. 15 Emlyn Square. The building 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 being one of Britain’s best-preserved and architecturally ambitious railway settlements.
Local climate
18a-18e, 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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