Swallow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Lodge.
Swallow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-stone-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Swallow Cottage, Swallow Vale
- OS grid reference
- TA 169 040
- Coordinates
- 53.52045, -0.23685
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swallow Cottage is a lodge to Swallow Vale farm, built around 1830. It is constructed of brown brick and features slate roofs with two tall tripartite gable stacks and a single two-part ridge stack. The building is two storeys high with a three-bay front, where the central bay projects and is topped by a gable adorned with ornamental brickwork and a large finial. The central doorway has glazed doors and a rectangular hoodmould, and it is flanked by single sliding sashes, each with rectangular hoodmoulds. Above, there are three sliding sashes set in ornate gables, each also featuring large finials.
Local climate
Swallow Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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