Former Assembly Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Manse.
Former Assembly Rooms
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-bailey-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Manse
- Address
- Former Assembly Rooms, 5 Cambrian Place, Waterfront / Y Glannau
- OS grid reference
- SS 660 928
- Coordinates
- 51.61806, -3.93592
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Former Assembly Rooms is a wide, two-storey building with a basement, featuring a five-bay façade. The upper floor is cement rendered, while the ground floor showcases exposed rusticated blocks behind a Tuscan colonnade, which was formerly a loggia. It has a hipped slate roof with wide eaves, and the outer first-floor window bays are adorned with panelled pilasters and channelled rustication. The centre bays have incised panels. The small-frame sash windows have plain margins and incised aprons. The ground floor includes panelled end pilasters, boarded small-pane windows, channelled voussoirs, and a segmental arch leading to the centre doorway, which is accessed by steps. The area railings have been removed.
The rear elevation is also two storeys and cemented, with a hipped slate roof. The first floor has two small-pane sashes on the left and a cantilevered three-light bay on the right. There is an arched doorway leading up steps, with an oculus to the left.
Local climate
Former Assembly Rooms 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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