Liverpool Victoria Insurance Offices Including "Cane Connection" Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Insurance office. 1 related planning application.
Liverpool Victoria Insurance Offices Including "Cane Connection" Shop
- WRENN ID
- sacred-postern-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Insurance office
- Address
- Liverpool Victoria Insurance Offices Including "Cane Connection" Shop, 7 Wind Street, Castle, SA1 1DF
- OS grid reference
- SS 657 929
- Coordinates
- 51.61963, -3.94046
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
These offices, including the “Cane Connection” shop, are built in a Free Baroque style. They date from the 18th century and are constructed of ashlar, featuring pink and white banding. The front facade is three bays wide, rising to four storeys and an attic. A tall gable is topped with a dragon finial and incorporates a circular window, supported by volutes. The corners are distinguished by polygonal buttresses each crowned with an urn finial. Flat pilasters adorn the facade, with a cartouche held within a scrolled pediment above the central bay. Moulded cornices and cill bands run along the building. Elaborate scrolled pediments feature above the windows on the second and third floors. The first floor's central window is given special treatment with an aedicule, incorporating a curvilinear pediment topped by a seated lion, flanked by bulbous, fluted columns with Corinthian capitals. The side windows are arched, with cartouche keyblocks and bowed balustraded aprons. Modern glazing is present throughout. The overall shop front includes a recessed entry on the right.
Local climate
Liverpool Victoria Insurance Offices Including "Cane Connection" Shop 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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