Former Swansea Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 July 1984. House.

Former Swansea Grammar School

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 July 1984
Type
House
Address
Former Swansea Grammar School, Castle
OS grid reference
SS 652 934
Coordinates
51.62371, -3.94727
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former Swansea Grammar School is a tall three-storey building constructed from partly coursed rubble, featuring rusticated quoins and freestone dressings. It has corbelled eaves, a weathered string course, and window surrounds. The building has raised gable ends and a slate roof, with a tall chimney that has triple round stems over the east wall-head. The top floor features continuous rectangular openings and elaborate mullioned windows with paired lights and quatrefoils, all grouped under strainer-arches. On the east side, there is a one-storey extension with a pair of large oculi. The gable end includes a sexpartite rose window and round-headed windows on the ground floor. A narrow section of the former west range displays Romanesque detailing on the doorpiece and bipartite windows above.

Inside, the building retains fine Gothic stencilled detailing in the dormitory on the top floor, as well as in the dining room and kitchens on the ground floor, and the chapel in the basement. Additional features include diaphragm arches and hooded chimneys.

Local climate

Former Swansea Grammar School 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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