40 and 42 Swan Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. House. 1 related planning application.
40 and 42 Swan Street
- WRENN ID
- guardian-cornice-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- 40 and 42 Swan Street, Boxford, CO10 5NZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 961 406
- Coordinates
- 52.02969, 0.85757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
40 and 42 Swan Street are a pair of red brick houses built in the mid-19th century. They have rusticated white brick quoins and window dressings. The houses are two storeys high, with a tiled roof and a ridge chimney stack. A raised white brick band runs across the front of the building, between the ground and first floors, and each floor has two sash windows. A modern entrance porch has been added.
Local climate
40 and 42 Swan Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 7 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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