74 Walter Road is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 July 1994. House.
74 Walter Road
- WRENN ID
- lost-barrel-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 July 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- 74 Walter Road, Uplands
- OS grid reference
- SS 643 928
- Coordinates
- 51.61836, -3.96056
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
74 Walter Road is a three-storey building with an attic, topped by a low parapet. It features a stucco exterior and a central rendered chimney. The roof has two gabled dormers with horned sash glazing.
The building has four bays, with the central two bays slightly projecting and articulated by pilasters. On the second floor, each bay has paired segmentally-headed windows set within an architrave. The first floor features a Venetian window, while the ground floor has a splayed bay window.
The end bays include a second floor window with an architrave, a first floor window with an architrave and pediment, and an open porch on the ground floor supported by pillars and an entablature. The entrance doorway has a moulded surround and cornice, and consists of a two-leaf panelled door with a rectangular overlight. The right gable is slate hung, while the left gable is pebbledashed.
Local climate
74 Walter Road 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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