44 Swansea Road, including forecourt wall & piers is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 July 1990. House. 5 related planning applications.
44 Swansea Road, including forecourt wall & piers
- WRENN ID
- errant-rubblework-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- 44 Swansea Road, including forecourt wall & piers, Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, CF44 9PE
- OS grid reference
- SN 960 054
- Coordinates
- 51.73837, -3.50611
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
44 Swansea Road is a Georgian house that features two storeys, an attic, and a basement. It is constructed of limewashed rubble-stone and has a three-window front. The roof has been replaced with synthetic slates, and there are rendered end stacks. The openings are offset to the right and have cambered heads. Most of the windows on the front elevation are renewed small-pane sashes fitted into the original openings. The central round-headed doorway includes a panelled door and a replaced plain overlight. In the lower storey, the windows are irregularly placed to the right and left of the doorway, and immediately to the left of the doorway is a blocked former window that is only visible from inside the house. The upper storey features three regularly placed, smaller windows.
On the left side of the basement, there is an original 12-pane hornless sash window, and to the right, a boarded door with a small inserted fixed light next to it. The left gable end of the house is rendered. The rear, made of rubble-stone, has a single-storey outshut with a basement that has been raised to two storeys under a pitched roof on the left side. Although the windows have been replaced, a two-light 19th-century casement window remains in the basement on the right side, and there is a replaced door on the left side.
In front of the centre and right side of the house is a forecourt. The gateway features square freestone piers topped with pyramid caps, although the gates are missing. To the right of the gateway is a dwarf wall with iron railings, which ends with a pier similar to the gate piers.
Some openings that once provided internal access to No 45 have been blocked. A single slate chimneypiece remains in the lower storey, while in the upper storey, there is a fragment of a former stone winding attic stair. The lower storey retains panelled doors, while the upper storey has boarded doors.
Local climate
44 Swansea Road, including forecourt wall & piers sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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