Swan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Swan Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-baluster-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swan Cottage, Swan Road, Fenstanton, PE28 9LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 318 683
- Coordinates
- 52.29775, -0.06847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swan Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage situated on the east side of Swan Road in Fenstanton. It is a single-storey building with an attic and a rear outshut. The exterior walls are of colour-washed brick, topped by a thatched roof with a central stack built of yellow brick. The cottage features two plank doors on the right and left sides. There are two hung sash windows with glazing bars, and a single horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars at ground-floor level.
Local climate
Swan Cottage 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- 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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