9 St James Crescent is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 July 1994. Terrace of houses. 2 related planning applications.
9 St James Crescent
- WRENN ID
- over-mantel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 July 1994
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Address
- 9 St James Crescent, Uplands, SA1 6DZ
- OS grid reference
- SS 642 929
- Coordinates
- 51.6192, -3.96172
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
9 St James Crescent is a terrace of four houses that have been converted into offices, located on the convex curve of St James Crescent. The arrangement features a central house with five windows, flanked by two three-window houses on the left and one three-window house on the right. The exterior is finished in stucco, with band strips at the sill levels of the first and second floors. The second-floor windows are set in shallow moulded surrounds with keystones, while the first-floor windows are topped with stucco bracketed segmental pediments over segmental headed windows. Most of the terrace has horned sash glazing, although some inappropriate modern materials have been used for replacements, particularly in No 10. The roofs are slate, and there are large red brick chimneys.
No 8, the leftmost house with three windows, features two dormers, with the left bay of two windows set slightly forward. It has Doric pilasters at the ends, with the left pilaster clad in artificial slate, which also covers the gable end of the terrace. The paired windows on the second and first floors are complemented by a splayed bay window on the ground floor to the left, and the entrance doorway, which has an overlight, is situated under an open porch supported by pillars.
No 9, while lacking the advanced bay of No 8, is a mirror image of it but has a rebuilt ground floor bay. No 10, which has five windows, also features Doric pilasters at the ends and three dormers. Its ground floor includes a central doorway with a stucco architrave and a panelled door, with glazing throughout. No 11, the rightmost house with three windows, has two windows on the right that are slightly offset. Its ground floor features an entrance doorway with an overlight under an open porch with pillars to the right, and a splayed bay window with brackets at the angles to the left, although it has modern plastic glazing.
Local climate
9 St James Crescent 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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