Old Swan House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1951. A Early Modern House.
Old Swan House
- WRENN ID
- stark-alcove-nightshade
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1951
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Old Swan House, Swan Barton, Sherston
- OS grid reference
- ST 852 858
- Coordinates
- 51.5715, -2.21382
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Swan House is a section of the former Swan Inn, now functioning as a house. It dates from the late 16th century and was restored in the 20th century. The building features coursed rubble that is rendered, with stone dressings and a gabled stone slate roof that has a brick stack at the east end. The rear section has an L-shaped plan, connecting with Nos 19 and 21 High Street.
The north front has two storeys and five bays, showcasing cavetto-moulded mullioned windows. There is a prominent five-light cross-mullion window with small leaded pane casements and a hoodmould at the centre of the ground floor, while the other windows consist of two, three, and four lights, all with hoodmoulds and similar casements. The facade includes two doorways topped with flat hoods supported by carved brackets, leading to plank doors. Additional mullioned windows can be found on the west end wall.
Inside, there is a late 16th-century stone fireplace in the ground floor room to the right, featuring a double chamfer. The original collar beam roof structure is supported by massive trusses.
Local climate
Old Swan House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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