(also known as Prospect Place) is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 April 1952. House.

(also known as Prospect Place)

WRENN ID
tattered-cellar-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 April 1952
Type
House
Address
(also known as Prospect Place), 5 Somerset Place, Waterfront / Y Glannau
OS grid reference
SS 659 929
Coordinates
51.61905, -3.93703
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This building, also known as Prospect Place, is a three-storey structure with a basement, featuring rendered and painted brick fronts, although the brick is exposed at No 7. It has three plain pilasters and a continuous slate roof, with chimneys located only at the center. No 7 includes a pitched dormer and boxed eaves.

The building has three windows for Nos 2 to 5 and two windows for Nos 6 and 7. There are arched recesses on the first floor, with a wide segmental arch at the center of No 6, which continues down as a two-storey recess with brick voussoirs at No 7. The small-paned sash windows, some of which are in blind recesses, have mostly been renewed, and there is a modern first-floor window at No 6 with a bracket above it. Each unit has a six-panel Georgian door accessed by steps, with No 6 featuring an overall fascia to its pilastered shop front, gabled reveals to a nine-panel door on the left, and a shop door to the right.

Additionally, there is a three-storey, two-window rendered elevation facing Ferryside. The rear of Nos 2 and 3 has gabled extensions, while the rear of No 4 includes an extension that runs back to Bath Lane.

Local climate

(also known as Prospect Place) 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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