Swallow House is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. House.
Swallow House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-cloister-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1957
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swallow House, 2, Bath Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 707 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45113, -0.98298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swallow House is a Grade II listed building dating from around 1780. It is a two-storey house with a basement, constructed of neat brick on a stone plinth. The house features a delicate wooden cornice with dentils that returns along the sides and up the gables. The slate roof has end stacks. The central block includes two tripartite windows with segmental stucco fan tympana above the ground floor windows. To the right is a plain contemporary side wing with a parapet and one window, while to the left is a larger modern side wing with two windows. All windows are fitted with glazing bar sashes. The central entrance features a six-panel door set in an arched recess, topped by a radiating fanlight and framed by a good Doric surround with a moulded open pediment. At the rear, there is a large bay, and to the east, there is a quadrant wall.
Local climate
Swallow House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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