Swaynes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
Swaynes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-hinge-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swaynes Cottage, Fore Street, Weston, SG4 7AS
- OS grid reference
- TL 259 304
- Coordinates
- 51.95784, -0.16842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swaynes Cottage is a late 17th-century house with a 19th-century rear extension and tilehanging. It is a timber-frame building set on a stepped brick plinth; the front is roughcast, while the ground floor at the south end is red brick and the upper floor at each end has scallop red tilehanging. The house is two storeys high, with two cells arranged in an internal-chimney, lobby-entry plan, and facing east onto the road.
The symmetrical east front has moulding below deep plaster coves at the eaves, with two windows on each floor. The windows are three-light flush leaded casements with rectangular panes and iron opening lights. The central entrance has a six-panel door in a moulded surround, topped with a full entablature and a dentilled flat hood supported on shaped brackets.
Local climate
Swaynes Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2003
- 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
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