Constitutional Club is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1989. Club building.

Constitutional Club

WRENN ID
cold-rafter-mallow
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
Club building
Address
Constitutional Club, SA11 1DT
OS grid reference
SS 753 975
Coordinates
51.66274, -3.80335
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Constitutional Club is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a five-window front and patterned brick facings. It has a steeply pitched slate roof that is hipped at the corners, with a yellow brick eaves band that creates a machiolated effect. The building retains its original decorative ironwork rainwater goods and has four gabled dormers topped with tile cresting and finials. The deep verges have bargeboards that form pointed arches, although the glazing has been modernized. There are two similar dormers on the side elevation.

The first-floor windows are housed in recessed panels, with a machiolated effect at the top. The brickwork is polychrome, featuring pointed arches and a continuous impost band. The windows below have two lights, with tropartite cusped lights above the tympani, all set with lead cames. The deep, moulded yellow brick sills are accented with paterae and a string course. To the right corner, there is a pentagonal bartizan oriel window that has similar detailing, including a spirelet with an ironwork finial. The freestone features decorated tracery, lead cames, and a moulded bracket on an angular brick shaft with a freestone corbel.

The ground floor windows are set within stilted arches, showcasing polychrome arches along with continuous impost and sill bands. The sash windows have six small panes in the upper sash and are supported by stone sills. A rectangular porch is located at the center of the front elevation. Above it, the first-floor will band forms a parapet that bears the lettering "CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB." The pointed polychrome arch is composed of two orders and features colonettes. Quatrefoils in the spandrels display a crown to the left and a mitre to the right, with stilted arches above the sash windows on the sides. The inner doors are panelled.

A similar architectural detail is present on the two-window elevation at the right end, although the first-floor windows here are paired within a single recess.

Local climate

Constitutional Club 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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