Laboratory Building at Entrance to Former Yorkshire Imperial Metal Works is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Laboratory building.

Laboratory Building at Entrance to Former Yorkshire Imperial Metal Works

WRENN ID
tattered-span-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Laboratory building
Address
Laboratory Building at Entrance to Former Yorkshire Imperial Metal Works, Landore
OS grid reference
SS 660 951
Coordinates
51.63901, -3.93636
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Laboratory Building at the entrance to the former Yorkshire Imperial Metal Works is a tall two-storey structure that runs along the boundary wall, featuring lower one-storey and basement stepped ranges attached to its inner side. The building is constructed with snecked rubble and has freestone dressings, along with rusticated quoins. It has a hipped slate roof, which is mostly stripped. The design includes a moulded cornice and frieze band, with segmental arched heads to the lugged window architraves. There is a cill band with moulded brackets, although the openings are blocked. The southern side of the building is made of random rubble with some brick patching. A fine stone doorcase is located on the return facing the entrance, featuring a ball finial on the pediment that contains a cartouche, along with swagged capitals on the panelled pilasters and an arched keyblock doorcase.

Local climate

Laboratory Building at Entrance to Former Yorkshire Imperial Metal Works sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 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 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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