Technical College Building is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. College building.

Technical College Building

WRENN ID
vast-postern-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
College building
Address
Technical College Building, Castle
OS grid reference
SS 651 935
Coordinates
51.6243, -3.94901
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Technical College Building is designed in the Tudor Gothic style and constructed from red brick with Portland stone dressings. It features a four-storey entrance tower that has diagonal buttresses, a crenellated parapet with corner pilasters, and stripwork surrounding twin bell-openings. The tower is adorned with large square-headed four-light mullioned and transomed windows, which are set below dripmoulds and have small-pane glazing. The doorframe includes a fine heraldic panel and an inscribed lintel above a four-centred archway, which is decorated with paterae and deep mouldings, as well as trefoils in the spandrels. A flight of steps leads up to the entrance, flanked by parapets that support ironwork lamp standards.

The four-storey ranges extend along the road with a stepped and angled elevation, featuring plain parapets and cross-windows with dripmoulds and small-pane glazing. There is a notable group of brick chimneys with spiral, chevron, and other Tudor mouldings above the parapets.

The eastern flank of the building has a similar architectural treatment and includes a three-window arched bridge that spans the road, connecting to an older building that is not of special interest.

Local climate

Technical College Building 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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