Prospect House is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. House.
Prospect House
- WRENN ID
- long-bonework-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Prospect House, 5, Church Place, South Swindon, SN1 5EH
- OS grid reference
- SU 144 847
- Coordinates
- 51.56112, -1.7933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prospect House is a house built between 1853 and 1854 for the Great Western Railway Company. It is constructed from ashlar limestone with black mortar and features a slate roof. The building is two stories high and has three bays on the front, with a two-bay return to Bathampton Street. Inside, there is a central hallway with flanking reception rooms, and the layout is two rooms deep. The house has a gabled porch that includes an internal margin-glazed door and a fanlight. Notable exterior features include wide hipped and canted bay windows with two-pane sashes, as well as a two-storey bay on the side elevation. The upper windows are casements set within shouldered gables.
This house is part of a village designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to accommodate workers for the Great Western Railway. The village layout, which resembles a grid, was based on Brunel’s early drawings from 1840. Construction began in 1842, and by 1855, most buildings were completed. Although Brunel designed only the first block of houses, the village is recognized as one of Britain’s best-preserved and architecturally ambitious railway settlements.
Local climate
Prospect House 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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