Danbert House (former Employment Exchange) is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1993. House.

Danbert House (former Employment Exchange)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 September 1993
Type
House
Address
Danbert House (former Employment Exchange), Morriston
OS grid reference
SS 670 976
Coordinates
51.66227, -3.92373
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Danbert House, formerly an Employment Exchange, is a three-storey building with attics, featuring painted smooth render, painted quoins, and a banded ground floor. It has moulded architraves, some exposed bathstone dressings, and dormers. The slate roof has bracketed eaves cornices and brick chimneys.

The front facing Morfydd Street consists of three bays, with two attic gables, each containing a round-headed window. Between these gables is a bathstone dormer with paired windows beneath a pediment topped with an urn. The central bay has paired round-headed windows on each floor. The outer bays feature triple round-headed windows on the second floor, with two-storey splayed bays below, each having small-pane horned sash glazing.

To the left, there are two gables, each with a round-headed window, and round-headed windows on the second floor, along with shouldered-arched windows on the first floor, including stair windows. There is a flat-roofed ground floor extension.

To the right, the elevation is similar to the west side but includes a single-storey porch with steps leading up to an exposed bathstone entrance flanked by columns. Shouldered-arched windows are present on the side and rear. The rear elevation mirrors the style of the south side, with a pair of gables set to the left and a bathstone dormer to the right.

The house is set behind a low brick wall, with yellow brick on the west side featuring sea-worn limestone capping, and common brick on the south side with stone copings.

Local climate

Danbert House (former Employment Exchange) 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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