Swansea County Court & Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Court.

Swansea County Court & Offices

WRENN ID
patient-pilaster-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Court
Address
Swansea County Court & Offices, Castle
OS grid reference
SS 656 929
Coordinates
51.61885, -3.94213
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Swansea County Court and Offices is a two-storey building with attics, constructed of red brick and featuring Bath stone dressings, including decorative banding. It has a slate roof with a ridge stack on the right and a front stack positioned at a splayed angle to the left. The building showcases a moulded corbel adorned with an elaborate cartouche, diagonal pilasters, volute supports, and a moulded cornice.

The attic storey is set behind a parapet and features stone window frames. The north front has five bays with a stone cornice at the parapet. The central bay is bowed and includes a three-light mullioned upper window beneath the cornice, with small pane glazing. Above the arched hood of the bowed entrance, there is a carved representation of the Royal arms "ERVII" in an ashlar field. The entrance is flanked by foliage corbels, an egg-and-dart cornice, and a convex architrave, with double recessed doors below an inscribed tympanum. The side bays contain cross windows on the upper floor and three-light windows on the ground floor, all featuring cornices, impost bands, and moulded cills.

Additionally, there is a three-storey, two-window elevation facing Princess Way, which includes a parapeted gable and a segmental pediment at the top. A smaller corbelled chimney stack on the left is supported by a carved angel. The windows on this elevation are two and three-light, similar to those on the north front, with a horizontal linkage on the top floor. To the left, there is a simpler extension that includes a doorway accessed by steps.

Local climate

Swansea County Court & Offices 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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