15 St James Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 July 1994. Terrace of houses. 1 related planning application.
15 St James Gardens
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-bracket-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 July 1994
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Address
- 15 St James Gardens, Uplands, SA1 6DY
- OS grid reference
- SS 642 930
- Coordinates
- 51.61958, -3.96175
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
15 St James Gardens is a terrace of eleven houses, built to step up along the road. These houses date from the 18th century and are constructed of red brick with decorative dressings of bathstone, most of which is now painted. The roofs have largely been replaced with tiles or slate substitutes, and the chimneys are red brick. The windows are mainly original sash windows, although replacements are present at numbers 17, 19, 21 and partially at number 22.
Each house features distinctive detailing. On the second floor, a tripartite window sits to the left, topped with a stone lintel, while a single window with a stone lintel is on the right. A continuous sill course rises with the buildings. The second floor also has a splayed bay window recessed under a segmental brick arch with a keystone on the left, and a window with a stone cornice, surmounted by a round brick arch with a keystone on the right. The ground floor on the left has a projecting splayed bay with a balustrade and a pediment, featuring two segmentally-headed windows to the front and a single segmentally-headed window in the splayed sides. To the right of the bay stands the entrance doorway, flanked by pilasters with a segmental head above, topped with a balustrade. The doorway itself has a panelled door with an overlight.
Local climate
15 St James Gardens 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- 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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