The Swan Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1971. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Swan Public House
- WRENN ID
- fallow-pewter-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1971
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Swan Public House, High Street, Wheathampstead, AL4 8AR
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 139
- Coordinates
- 51.81149, -0.29396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan Public House is a public house built around 1500, featuring an open hall with two bays and an additional bay at each end. A two-storey wing was added to the south in the mid to late 17th century, and the building was refronted in the early to mid 19th century. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the upper floor is roughcast, topped with a plain tile roof. The structure consists of two blocks, with the northern block being single storey and having attics. A large red brick chimney stack from the mid to late 17th century is located at the south end, featuring coped offsets and corbelled caps.
The front of the building has three canted window bays on the ground floor, with the southern two featuring sash windows. The northern block has a central door with reeded panels and a cut bracket hood, above which is a sash window. There is a 17th-century ridge stack. Inside, the south end contains ovolo moulded floor beams, and there is a low-ceilinged bay from around 1500 between the south end and the center, which features a 17th-century chamfer-stopped beam and a large inglenook. An early to mid 19th-century rear extension is located on the south side.
Local climate
The Swan Public 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 82% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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