7 St James Crescent is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 July 1994. House.
7 St James Crescent
- WRENN ID
- plain-chamber-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 July 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- 7 St James Crescent, Uplands, SA1 6DZ
- OS grid reference
- SS 642 929
- Coordinates
- 51.61903, -3.96192
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
7 St James Crescent is a two and three-storey building featuring stucco with stucco quoins and a band course at the first-floor sill levels. The slate roof has bracketed eaves and rendered chimneys, with horned sash glazing throughout. The left block is two storeys tall and includes a small gabled dormer in the roof, while the right side has a three-storey projecting gabled wing. Banded pilaster strips accentuate the angles of the building.
The left block has a central bay flanked by pilasters that extend slightly to the impost level. It features double-leaf doors with an overlight and a balustrade above. The first floor has a round-headed window with a moulded surround and a string course at the impost level, topped by a dentil cornice. The outer bays on the first floor each contain paired camber-headed windows in moulded surrounds, with a band course at the sill level. The ground floor features a splayed bay window with scrolled brackets at the angles.
The gabled wing has a round-headed horned sash window on the second floor, a Venetian window on the first floor, and a splayed bay window with scrolled brackets at the angles on the ground floor. The left return of the building includes an open loggia at ground floor level supported by Doric pillars.
Local climate
7 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
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