Old Swan House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House, inn. 13 related planning applications.
Old Swan House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-casement-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House, inn
- Address
- Old Swan House, the Common, Chipperfield, WD4 9BY
- OS grid reference
- TL 039 014
- Coordinates
- 51.70172, -0.49696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Swan House is a house, which was formerly an inn. It dates back to the 17th century and was altered and extended in the 18th century. It operated as The Swan public house in the 19th century and has been a house since 1914, with alterations made in 1922. The exterior is roughcast, with steep, lipped old red tile roofs. The house is L-shaped, with a two-storey section facing west and a long, northeast rear wing. It has two large external rear wall chimneys. The west front has dentilled eaves and a timber-framed, gabled, tiled porch in the south part, containing a six-panel door. The windows are flush casements with metal frames. A very large, old external rear chimney features tiled offsets and an 18th-century added shaft for a first-floor fireplace. The northeast wing has two flush casement windows with small panes and pointed lights, and a lean-to is located on the south side of the angle. The interior of the west range reveals a timber frame. A white swan serves as a weather vane on the west range.
Local climate
Old Swan House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 14 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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