Old Swan House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.
Old Swan House
- WRENN ID
- salt-casement-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Swan House, 103, High Street, Buntingford, SG9 9AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 361 297
- Coordinates
- 51.94959, -0.02106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Swan House is a house, formerly The Swan Inn, dating from the early 18th century or earlier, with renovations from the early 19th century. The building is timber-framed with a low stuccoed sill and roughcast render. The northeast angle is rusticated, and the north end is plastered and extended to the rear, forming a matching corner created when Norfolk Road was constructed. It has a steep red tiled roof with a deep moulded eaves cornice.
The front façade is symmetrical, with two windows and a central door. There are small, two-light Yorkshire sliding casements with small panes in the upper windows. The ground floor has triple flush box sash windows with small panes and hoods, and a four-panel, half-glazed door set two steps up, with a moulded surround and a full entablature. A central chimney is present, and the building has a lobby-entry plan with a rear wing to the northwest.
Local climate
Old Swan House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings