Former Stables at The Poplars is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 November 2018. Stables.
Former Stables at The Poplars
- WRENN ID
- ghost-courtyard-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 November 2018
- Type
- Stables
- Address
- Former Stables at The Poplars, Pontlliw and Tircoed
- OS grid reference
- SN 611 001
- Coordinates
- 51.68317, -4.00962
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former stables at The Poplars are a single-storey structure with an attic in the west wing, built from a mix of yellow and red brick, topped with a slate roof and clay ridge tiles. The building features brick stacks and timber transom windows, which have red brick heads and stone cills. It has deep overhanging eaves with moulded purlin ends and is arranged in an L-shaped plan, facing an enclosed cobbled yard on the northeast side.
Access to the stables is provided by a wide double doorway with sliding timber doors located in the north elevation of the south wing. The west wing includes a central window and a gabled hayloft door above, along with a side door. The north elevation has a pair of windows on the ground floor and a shorter central window above. There are two openings in the west elevation and a pair of windows on the east elevation.
Inside the south wing, the west wing retains loose boxes with original fittings, a tack room (not inspected), and a hay loft on the first floor.
Local climate
Former Stables at The Poplars sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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