Railings at the Swan Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1971. A C19 Railings.
Railings at the Swan Hotel
- WRENN ID
- swift-chalk-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1971
- Type
- Railings
- Address
- Railings at the Swan Hotel, 1 High Street, MK40 1RW
- OS grid reference
- TL 051 496
- Coordinates
- 52.13482, -0.46548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railings at the Swan Hotel were built in the early to mid-19th century. They are made of cast iron and stand on a plinth wall made of ashlar stone. The railings extend approximately 40 meters along the south side of the hotel in an east-west direction. The design features a repeated series of nine cast-iron swanneck balusters, each topped with a rectangular margined panel. These elements are connected by a top rail that has two pointed finials above each baluster.
Local climate
Railings at the Swan Hotel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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