Swiss Cottage in Singleton Park is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 November 1993. Bridge.

Swiss Cottage in Singleton Park

WRENN ID
idle-pier-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 November 1993
Type
Bridge
Address
Swiss Cottage in Singleton Park, Sketty
OS grid reference
SS 630 925
Coordinates
51.61464, -3.97932
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Swiss Cottage in Singleton Park is a 19th-century wooden-framed building with horizontal boarding and a slate roof, featuring red brick chimneys. The shallow-pitched slate roof has two red brick chimneys on the west side. The south gabled front showcases very deeply overhanging eaves supported by wooden brackets and scalloped bargeboards. At the gable apex, there are inscriptions reading "1826" and "LIBERTE ET PATRIE." Below, a band of scalloped decoration is found beneath a three-light window, along with a panel that has scalloped banding and a painted inscription that says "LEBE SO DAS DU WIEDER LEBEN MAGST." There is also a five-light window with a scalloped band below it, and scalloped posts at the corners.

On the sides, the eaves extend over first-floor pierced balconies that are supported by brackets and posts. On the west side, there is an enclosed open-traced staircase and a small balcony at the rear. The ground floor features two two-light windows with projecting scalloped surrounds, and smaller windows are located at the rear of the steps. On the east side, the balcony is fretted at the front and boarded at the rear, with stairs that project to the rear. The ground floor has a two-light window on the right, with an inscription above it in German. Steps lead up to an arched doorway, accompanied by a three-light casement window and a smaller square window towards the rear.

Local climate

Swiss Cottage in Singleton Park 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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