Swansdown House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. A C18 House.
Swansdown House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-plinth-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swansdown House, Market Place, Westbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 873 515
- Coordinates
- 51.26258, -2.18258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swansdown House is a late 18th century building located in Westbury Market Place. It features a late 19th century shop front on the ground floor, which is adorned with leaf scroll fascia brackets. The building is constructed of colour washed brick and has a tiled roof. It stands two storeys tall, with the upper floor and roof being extensions of Albion Home and the Crown Hotel. The building has plate glass sash windows, with one in each section of the front; the right-hand window has a segmental head. Notably, dormers have been removed since the previous listing.
Local climate
Swansdown House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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