(also known as Prospect Place) is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 April 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
(also known as Prospect Place)
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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
- (also known as Prospect Place), 4 Somerset Place, Waterfront / Y Glannau, SA1 1QP
- OS grid reference
- SS 659 929
- Coordinates
- 51.61904, -3.93711
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building, also known as Prospect Place, is a three-storey structure with a basement, featuring rendered and painted brick fronts, although the brick is exposed at No 7. It has three plain pilasters and a continuous slate roof, with chimneys located only at the center, along with a pitched dormer and boxed eaves at No 7.
The front has three windows for Nos 2 to 5 and two windows for Nos 6 and 7. There are arched recesses at the first floor center, with a wide segmental arch for No 6, which continues down as a two-storey recess with brick voussoirs for No 7. The windows are mostly small-paned sash windows, some of which are in blind recesses and have been mostly renewed. No 6 features a modern first-floor window with a bracket above it.
The entrances consist of six-panel Georgian doors accessed by steps, with No 6 having an overall fascia to its pilastered shop front, gabled reveals to a nine-panel door on the left, and a shop door to the right. The elevation facing Ferryside is rendered and has three storeys with two windows. There are gabled extensions at the rear of Nos 2 and 3, and an extension at the rear of No 4 that runs back to Bath Lane.
Local climate
(also known as Prospect 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 — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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