Offices of Community Industry is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Commercial.
Offices of Community Industry
- WRENN ID
- night-courtyard-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Offices of Community Industry, Castle
- OS grid reference
- SS 653 933
- Coordinates
- 51.62245, -3.94678
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Offices of Community Industry is a corner building dating from around 1900, designed in the Arts and Crafts style. It stands two storeys tall, with an attic and basement, and features a hipped slate roof. A three-storey bay extends through the eaves on the south front, complemented by ridge cresting and a red brick chimney stack at the rear, along with overhanging eaves. The first floor is tile-hung, while the ground floor is constructed of red brick.
The building has gabled dormers facing the road and a full-height south bay that includes four-light small-pane glazing, with boarded and swept aprons that connect to the cornices. There is a two-storey, three-light oriel window treatment at the splayed angle bay. A diagonal bay is positioned over the central porch on the road front, which is topped with a lean-to hood supported by turned openwork timber brackets.
To the right, a lower two-storey range curves uphill and features a cantilevered bay at the first-floor level. The adjoining right-hand building has been removed.
Local climate
Offices of Community Industry 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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