Swan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Thurrock local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
Swan Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-portal-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thurrock
- Constituency
- South Basildon and East Thurrock MP: James McMurdock (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swan Cottage, High Road, SS17 8LD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 670 833
- Coordinates
- 51.52413, 0.40588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swan Cottage is an early 19th-century house located on the east side of High Road in Horndon-on-the-Hill. The building is constructed of painted brick and features a grey slate roof. It stands two storeys tall with attics and has a two-window range of double-hung sashes, although there is a modern casement window at the ground floor. The doors are designed with semi-circular arches, and there is a gabled dormer above.
Local climate
Swan Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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