Swakeley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. House.

Swakeley Cottage

WRENN ID
stark-brick-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hillingdon
Constituency
Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP: Danny Beales (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1950
Type
House
Address
Swakeley Cottage, 2, the Avenue
OS grid reference
TQ 075 863
Coordinates
51.56564, -0.44943
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Swakeley Cottage is a 17th-century brick building that has been pebbledashed. It stands two storeys high with three wide windows. The cottage features a high-pitched tiled roof with a chimney at the right end and a moulded wood eaves cornice. The ground floor includes a west wing made of timber frame with plaster filling, while the centre window on the first floor is blocked. The ground floor has attractive 19th-century four-light casements and a matching small square bay window on the right. A notable late 18th-century doorcase is present, featuring reeded pilasters, an urn and swag frieze with paterae at the corners, and a dentil cornice. At the rear, there are two late 18th-century wings with similar windows that are now pebble-dashed but still display a brick dentil cornice. To the east, there is a section of red brick wall with sloped coping and three tall piers, which has been rendered.

Local climate

Swakeley Cottage 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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