8 Cambrian Place is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 April 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
8 Cambrian Place
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8 Cambrian Place, Waterfront / Y Glannau, SA1 1RG
- OS grid reference
- SS 660 928
- Coordinates
- 51.61814, -3.93554
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
8 Cambrian Place is an 18th-century building of three stories and a basement, originally consisting of individual red brick frontages, although the brickwork has been patched. The basements are constructed from coursed rubble. The roof is slate, hipped at the right end, with simple chimney stacks, and features brick headers at the eaves on the left side.
The building has two windows per floor. The windows have gauged brickwork voussoirs, and the first floor features tall arched recesses containing modern canopied windows set within cantilevered balconies. These are positioned centrally to the left side, with narrow windows on either side. The ground floor windows are bipartites. The windows are largely fitted with large-pane sash glazing, which has been renewed. The doorcases have offset, pilastered surrounds, ornamented with key pattern friezes, projecting hoods, panelled reveals, and traceried fanlights above six-panel doors, with steps leading up to them. Basement areas are accessed via plain ironwork railings and steps.
A roughcast side elevation faces the River Tawe, and the rear elevation has been modernised.
Local climate
8 Cambrian Place sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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