Walkers Snack Foods Factory is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 January 2000. Factory.
Walkers Snack Foods Factory
- WRENN ID
- vast-cupola-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 January 2000
- Type
- Factory
- Address
- Walkers Snack Foods Factory, Fforest-Fach, Cockett
- OS grid reference
- SS 627 964
- Coordinates
- 51.6499, -3.98592
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Walkers Snack Foods Factory is a factory building featuring a symmetrical two-storey entrance block with 17 bays, designed in a restrained Art Deco style. The walls are rendered and painted white, while the roof is set behind a plain parapet topped with a blue-painted coping course. The windows on the lower storey are taller and have metal glazing bars also painted blue. The central entrance bay includes a canted fascia above the doorway, which has replaced double half-lit doors set in a doorway with margin glazing. Above the upper storey, there is a two-stage tapering clock tower that has a window in the lower stage and a clock positioned above a modern panel, with the tower's angles recessed.
The bays to the right and left of the center are slightly projected and rise above the parapet of the other bays. The windows are set within recessed panels. The outer seven bays on each side feature impost bands at the upper storeys, and the windows are recessed from the main façade between pilaster strips. The main angles at both ends of the building are recessed and splayed.
On the short three-bay return wall to the right, there are small metal-framed windows flanking a tall central stair light. The ten-bay left return wall includes a one-storey flat-roofed projection, above which is a blind window at the right end. To the left of this, there are four windows similar to those on the front, followed by an advanced blind bay in the center, and then four further blind windows to the left.
Behind the entrance block is the main factory block, which is top-lit and features four gabled bays. There are also further, higher metal-clad extensions located behind the main structure. The building has not been inspected.
Local climate
Walkers Snack Foods Factory 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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