Swan House is a Grade II* listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1954. A Victorian House. 2 related planning applications.
Swan House
- WRENN ID
- moated-loggia-dock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1954
- Type
- House
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Swan House, 17, Chelsea Embankment Sw3, SW3 4LA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 276 777
- Coordinates
- 51.48404, -0.16341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swan House is a house built in 1876, designed by architect R. Norman Shaw. It is a four-storey building with a basement and dormers, featuring mostly seven windows. The house has a red brick exterior and a tiled roof. Notable architectural details include a carved cornice at the eaves and overhanging first and second floors, with the second floor projecting beyond the first, supported by brick piers. The first floor has three wide oriel windows with curved returns and semi-circular-headed central lights, all fitted with leaded panes. The second floor windows are long and narrow, with glazing bars, and alternate windows are three-sided oriels with single brackets beneath. The central entrance is adorned with a swan motif above the door.
Local climate
Swan House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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