The Hard is a Grade II listed building in the Fareham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1976. House.

The Hard

WRENN ID
final-chalk-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Fareham
Constituency
Hamble Valley MP: Paul Holmes (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1976
Type
House
Address
The Hard, Swanwick Shore Road
OS grid reference
SU 495 092
Coordinates
50.88101, -1.29705
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Hard is an 18th-century building located on Swanwick Shore Road in Lower Swanwick. It is constructed of red brick with some grey headers and features a brick eaves cornice. The roof is old, tiled, and hipped. The building has two storeys and three windows, although the centre window on the first floor is now blank and covered with roughcast rendering. The sashes have boxed frames and late 19th-century glazing. The entrance features a centre door with a plain stucco architrave, which now has a glazed panel set over a modern door. The Hard, along with Bay Tree Cottages (Nos 1 and 2) and Victory Cottages (Nos 1 to 6 in sequence), as well as the building adjacent to No 1, form a group.

Local climate

The Hard receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 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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