Swan House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Swan House
- WRENN ID
- wild-pinnacle-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swan House, 10, Swan Street, Ashwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 266 397
- Coordinates
- 52.0413, -0.15419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swan House, formerly the Swan Inn, is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features a timber frame with roughcast walls and a plastered coved eaves cornice. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a central square red brick stack. The building stands two storeys high with an attic. There are two flush sash windows with wide wood frames. On the left side, there is an early to mid-19th century doorcase that includes fluted pilasters and an open mutuled pediment. The gable end has two sash windows on the ground floor and one in the attic.
Local climate
Swan House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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