Swinton House is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1953. House, club. 4 related planning applications.
Swinton House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-rubble-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rawmarsh and Conisbrough MP: John Healey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1953
- Type
- House, club
- Address
- Swinton House, 20, Fitzwilliam Street
- OS grid reference
- SK 453 989
- Coordinates
- 53.48559, -1.31849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swinton House is a building that has been converted into a club. It dates from the early to mid-18th century, with 19th-century additions at the rear. The structure is made of coursed, dressed sandstone and has a Welsh slate roof. It stands two storeys high with a five-bay front and a triple wing at the rear that projects beyond the left side. The entrance is located on the right side of the building.
The façade features large projecting quoins and a plinth, with most of the lower wall rendered and showing irregularly-ruled joints. The central doorway has been walled up, and its original surround has been removed below mid-height. It features an architrave with a tripartite keyblock and acanthus-carved consoles supporting a broken segmental pediment. The flanking windows are unequal 15-pane sashes set in squared-faced surrounds with moulded sills, and there is a ventilator inserted in the upper part of the first bay window.
A band runs along the building, and the first-floor sashes have glazing bars with surrounds similar to those on the ground floor. The central window is highlighted by a decorative apron panel, sill blocks, a shouldered and eared architrave, and a cornice, although the cornice is now cemented over. A moulded cornice forms the gutter and projects forward over the central bay and at each end. The gables are coped, and there are renewed brick stacks at the ends. On the left side, there is an attached wing with a 19th-century garden front that features a curved single-storey bay window on the right.
Local climate
Swinton House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- 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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