White Swan Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. Public house.
White Swan Public House
- WRENN ID
- slow-outpost-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- White Swan Public House, Bedford Road, Shefford
- OS grid reference
- TL 143 393
- Coordinates
- 52.04079, -0.3343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Swan Public House is a public house built in the late 18th century. It is constructed of red brick featuring flared headers and has a clay tile roof. The building has a three-room plan and stands two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there are three later 19th-century sash windows, while the first floor has three earlier sash windows with glazing bars, all set under gauged brick flat arches. Between the two right-hand sash windows on the first floor, there is a blind window. The left side features a part-glazed door from the 20th century, while the right side has a plain 20th-century door within its original moulded surround, topped with an open pediment supported by cut brackets. A brick dentil cornice runs along the eaves, and there are integral red brick stacks at both gable ends.
Local climate
White Swan Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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