Swan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. A C18 Cottage.
Swan Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-remnant-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Swan Cottage, Main Road, Ford End, Great Waltham, CM3 1LL
- OS grid reference
- TL 673 171
- Coordinates
- 51.82758, 0.42681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swan Cottage is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered cottage located on Main Road in Great Waltham. It has one storey and attics, featuring a boarded door and casement windows. The roof is thatched and includes one gabled dormer. Swan Cottage is part of a group that includes Brook House, Moss Rose Cottage, Hill Rise Cottage, Down House, and Porters Hall, with Moss Rose Cottage, Hill Rise Cottage, and Down House being buildings of local interest.
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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Sale history — 9 transactions since 2000
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