House of the White Swan is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.
House of the White Swan
- WRENN ID
- tenth-passage-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- House of the White Swan, 48, Northgate, CT1 1BE
- OS grid reference
- TR 152 583
- Coordinates
- 51.28318, 1.08474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The House of the White Swan is a timber-framed building that has been altered. It features a two-storey front elevation that is pebble dashed with imitation timber-framing and has a renewed tiled roof. On the first floor, there are four 18th-century sash windows with intact glazing bars. The ground floor has restored casement windows. The rear elevation is plastered and includes two gables. This building is located next to the St John's Hospital Gateway to the southwest. The House of the White Swan, along with Nos 46 to 48 and the Gatehouse to St John's Hospital, forms a group.
Local climate
House of the White Swan sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 3 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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