Swale House and Boundary Wall, University of Hull is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Hull, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1994. House, office.
Swale House and Boundary Wall, University of Hull
- WRENN ID
- stranded-niche-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Constituency
- Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham MP: Dame Diana Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1994
- Type
- House, office
- Address
- Swale House and Boundary Wall, University of Hull, Cottingham Road
- OS grid reference
- TA 074 315
- Coordinates
- 53.76949, -0.37113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swale House, now used as offices, is located on Cottingham Road at the University of Hull. Built between 1909 and 1913 by the architectural firm Crouch, Butler & Savage, the house features red brick construction and a hipped plain tile roof with two large coped ridge stacks. The building is two storeys high with attics and has a three-window range. The central window is a wooden two-light casement, flanked by two similar four-light windows. Above, there are three hipped dormers, each with two-light casements. The entrance includes a wooden doorcase with pilasters and shaped brackets supporting a segmental hood, leading to a fielded six-panel door. On either side of the entrance, there are canted brick bay windows with parapets and twelve-pane sashes.
The boundary wall consists of a low brick structure approximately 100 meters long, featuring gabled ashlar coping and intermediate piers with stepped ashlar caps. At the right end of the wall, there is a gateway with concave walls and square piers that have moulded caps and coping. Additionally, there is a pair of square brick gatepiers with rebated corners and flat ashlar caps, along with a wooden gate and a corniced canopy.
Local climate
Swale House and Boundary Wall, University of Hull receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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