The Swan Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. A Medieval Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Swan Public House
- WRENN ID
- south-terrace-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- Public house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Swan Public House, 139, High Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 3HH
- OS grid reference
- SP 992 077
- Coordinates
- 51.75969, -0.56294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan Public House is a 16th-century building, with the ground floor front wall constructed in the 18th century. It features an old tiled roof with oversailing double gables. The entrance has a flat-headed doorcase flanked by pilasters and a decorated frieze. On either side of the door, there is a three-light sash window. The first floor has two modern mullioned and transomed oriel windows. The Swan Public House is part of a group that includes Nos 137 to 147 (odd).
Local climate
The Swan Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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