Great Western Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1989. Commercial.

Great Western Chambers

WRENN ID
kindled-portal-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 January 1989
Type
Commercial
OS grid reference
SS 751 977
Coordinates
51.66437, -3.80626
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Great Western Chambers is a building from the early to mid-19th century. It has three stories and features a three-window front, with a whitewashed roughcast exterior and a plaster plinth. The roof is hipped and covered with slate, and there are boarded eaves with brick stacks at each end.

The second-floor windows have shallow upper sashes with 12 panes, plain reveals, and stone sills that form a continuous sillband. The first-floor windows have eight small panes in the upper sash, with the lower sashes lacking glazing bars, and they also feature a continuous sillband. In the center of the building, there is a late 19th-century canted oriel window with a fishscale slate roof, cambered heads on the sash windows, and an ogee bracket. The ground floor windows are larger but maintain a similar style to those on the first floor.

The entrance features a central round-arched recessed doorway with a classical doorcase, which includes a dentilled open pediment, torus moulded pilasters, and fluted capitals. The door is panelled and topped with a segmental fanlight.

To the east, there is a symmetric two-window elevation that mirrors the front's fenestration, although the first-floor windows are offset to the left. A central doorway on the ground floor has been blocked. This elevation also has sill bands and a plinth.

On the west end elevation, there are two two-light casement windows on the first floor. The rear of the building has modern fenestration on the second floor, while the first floor features a 12-pane sash window and a 30-pane sash window in the stairwell. The ground floor includes a 12-pane sash window, along with other modern cut doors and windows.

Local climate

Great Western Chambers 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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