The Swan Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. A Early to mid C19 Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
The Swan Hotel
- WRENN ID
- drifting-cobalt-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Swan Hotel, 50, High Street, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1EA
- OS grid reference
- SP 921 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91614, -0.66182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan Hotel is an early to mid 19th century building located on the south side of High Street in Leighton Buzzard. It features a stucco front with a parapet and stands three storeys tall. The façade is accentuated by tall Doric angle pilasters and an eaves level with a tablature that includes an ornate frieze. There is a central opening in the parapet designed for a statue of a swan. The building has a slight central projection and is arranged with two one-window sections flanking a central three-light sash window, all of which have glazing bars and are set in architrave surrounds. The first-floor windows are adorned with entablatures supported by consoles. A Greek Ionic porch leads to the entrance and is complemented by cast iron railings on the balcony and between the porch columns. Above the door, there is a rectangular fanlight. To the left, there is a one-window wing that includes a carriageway. The Swan Hotel forms part of a group with Nos 2 to 6 (even) Market Square.
Local climate
The Swan Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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