Swift Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Swift Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-floor-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Swift Cottage, Main Street, Hurstbourne Tarrant, SP11 0BJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 380 536
- Coordinates
- 51.28031, -1.45602
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swift Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with 20th-century extensions. It is constructed of flint and brick, featuring thatch and tile roofing. The building has one storey and an attic, with two windows. The roof is half-hipped and includes eyebrow dormers. The north end shows partial exposure of the timber-frame, which has a jettied first floor that is tile-hung with fishscale tiles. The other walls are made of flint with brick dressings, which are now painted. There is a former doorway in the roadside gable that has been blocked. The windows are casements, with some old leaded lights in the dormers. The entrance features a boarded door. At the rear, there are lower narrow extensions with a tile roof and painted brick walls.
Local climate
Swift Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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