The Swan Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1976. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Swan Hotel
- WRENN ID
- grim-cupola-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1976
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Swan Hotel, Church Street, Kington, HR5 3AZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 295 567
- Coordinates
- 52.20413, -3.03259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan Hotel is an inn, now functioning as a hotel, dating from the early 19th century. The building features stone rubble on the ground floor, covered with render, and has a Welsh slate roof with a hipped gable over an advanced wing on the right side. There is a rendered ridge stack and a buttress stack on the right returned side.
The hotel is two storeys high and has a six-window range, including three 3/6 sash windows (three of which are from the late 19th century) and a 6/6 sash window in the wing. A 20th-century porch has a moulded four-centred arch and leaded lights. To the left, there is a canted bay with late 19th-century 4/6, 6/9, and 4/6 sashes, as well as two tripartite windows featuring late 19th-century 2/2, 6/6, and 2/2 sashes. On the right side, there is a tripartite window with 2/2, 6/6, and 2/2 sashes, set under a stone segmental arch. The right returned side has two 6/6 sashes above canted bays with 4/6, 6/9, and 4/6 sashes, and there is a moulded band that returns to the rear of the building.
Local climate
The Swan Hotel receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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