Swan Gallery is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. A Medieval, Victorian House and shop.
Swan Gallery
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-basalt-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House and shop
- Period
- Medieval, Victorian
- Address
- Swan Gallery, 127, High Street, Burford
- OS grid reference
- SP 251 120
- Coordinates
- 51.80662, -1.63666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swan Gallery is a house and shop that was previously an inn. The building dates back to the 16th century, with its front remodeled in the early 19th century and subsequently restored. It is constructed of coursed rubble and features a slate roof with a brick chimney on a rubble plinth to the left. The most prominent feature of the front is a continuous timber lintel and cill at the first floor level. The structure has two storeys and an attic, with two gabled dormers that have leaded lights. On the first floor, there are two 16-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has two hipped bays with glazing-bar sashes.
The north side of the building, which faces Swan Lane, shows evidence of a steeper pitch roof and includes a moulded plinth and an oak first-floor window with two lights, featuring ogee moulding and decorative imbricated details around the window and lintel. At the rear, there is a two-storey extension with three bays on one side and two bays on the other, which contains a mix of sash and casement windows, along with a further single-storey and attic extension beyond.
Inside, the ground floor features a wide fireplace with curved corners and a chamfered pointed-arch door leading to the rear. The joints are fairly closely spaced and stop-chamfered. There is a long rear wing with varying ceiling heights and beams, including a chamfered Tudor-arched fireplace to the east. On the first floor, there is a fireplace with a wooden lintel, next to which is a fine oak and chestnut wood food cupboard with splat balusters on two levels, as well as a further closed 17th-century cupboard to the right of the fireplace. The roof structure includes cut-back ties with triangulated strainers and stop-chamfered members.
Local climate
Swan Gallery receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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