Swift Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1975. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Swift Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-mantel-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Swift Cottage, 7, School Lane, Herongate and Ingrave, CM13 3RB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 624 919
- Coordinates
- 51.60319, 0.3442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swift Cottage is a mid-19th century pair of attached cottages, now combined into a single house. It is located on School Lane in Ingrave, Brentwood. The building is timber-framed and clad in weatherboard, with a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan facing southwest, with a central brick stack. A two-storey wing was added in the 20th century to the rear left, and a single-storey lean-to extension was added to the rear right. The front elevation features two original sash windows on each floor, each with eight panes. Two 20th-century boarded doors, each with a small pane of glass, provide access, and are sheltered by shallow lean-to canopies supported on profiled brackets. The roof is hipped. One original sash window with handmade glass remains in the rear elevation, positioned above the lean-to extension. The 20th-century rear wing contains sash windows of a similar design.
Local climate
Swift Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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