2 Princes Way is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 March 1986. House.

2 Princes Way

WRENN ID
noble-keystone-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 March 1986
Type
House
Address
2 Princes Way, Castle
OS grid reference
SS 657 928
Coordinates
51.61856, -3.94084
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This building at 2 Princes Way is a three-storey office block constructed with snecked rubble facings and badly eroded freestone dressings. It features steep slate roofs, with a large gable projecting forward on the left side and parapets adorned with finials. The stems of the chimneys on the left and centre have been removed above their sloping seatings. The gable has three slit windows and a wide relieving arch above a cusped tripartite window, which includes blind heads with disc ornament and punched spandrel rosettes. On the right side, there are plain chamfered openings and cill bands. The first floor has seven paired windows under relieving arches with shouldered heads, roll-moulded arches, and similar detailing, featuring sash windows with some glazing bars. The ground floor has shouldered windows with decayed colonnettes and two modern doors, while the gable end is rendered.

Inside, the building retains an openwell staircase made of Baltic oak, featuring Gothic newels and ironwork railings.

Local climate

2 Princes Way 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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