4 Princess Way is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 March 1986. Office block.
4 Princess Way
- WRENN ID
- moated-cobalt-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1986
- Type
- Office block
- Address
- 4 Princess Way, Castle
- OS grid reference
- SS 657 928
- Coordinates
- 51.61858, -3.94094
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a three-storey office block built with snecked rubble facings and badly eroded freestone dressings. It features steep slate roofs, with a large gable extending forward on the left side, and parapets topped with finials. The stems of the chimneys on the left and centre have been removed above sloping seatings. The gable has three slit windows, and there is a wide relieving arch over a cusped tripartite window, which includes blind heads with disc ornament and punched spandrel rosettes. The right side has plain chamfered openings and cill bands.
On the first floor, there are seven paired windows under relieving arches with shouldered heads, roll-moulded arches, and similar detailing, featuring sash windows with some glazing bars. The ground floor has shouldered windows with decayed colonnettes and two modern doors, while the gable end is rendered.
Inside, the building retains an openwell staircase made of Baltic oak, featuring Gothic newels and ironwork railings.
Local climate
4 Princess Way 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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