The White Swan Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The White Swan Public House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-clay-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The White Swan Public House, 26, Guildhall Walk, City of Portsmouth, PO1 2DD
- OS grid reference
- SU 639 000
- Coordinates
- 50.79632, -1.09333
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Swan Public House is a public house built around 1900 by A.H. Bone. It features a timber frame with plaster infill, flint, and ashlar, topped by a steep pitched plain tiled roof with brick stacks on the left and center. The building is designed in a Neo-Tudor Jacobean style and has two storeys and an attic, arranged in three bays with a 2:2:2 configuration.
At the center, there is a two-leaf door, with each leaf having four shaped raised panels and an upper panel with leaded lights. On the far left and right, there are similar single doors, each with seven shaped raised panels. Each of the three entrances is flanked by male and female figures, with Ionic volutes above their heads supporting brackets to carved pediments; the center pediment is segmental.
To the left and right of the center entrance are three-light stone mullion and transomed casements with leaded lights, while a small stone transomed casement is located on the far left. The wall below the window sills is faced with flint and features ashlar bands and a low stone plinth. The jettied timber-framed first floor has six timber mullion and transomed casements with diamond pattern leaded lights. The roof features three gabled dormers, each with ornate bargeboards; the outer dormers have two-light timber lattice casements with a single light in the center.
Local climate
The White Swan Public House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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