5 Swan Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.

5 Swan Cottages

WRENN ID
sheer-alcove-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1952
Type
House
Address
5 Swan Cottages, the Street, Bibury, GL7 5NP
OS grid reference
SP 115 068
Coordinates
51.75991, -1.83393
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

5 Swan Cottages is a Grade II listed building located in Bibury, originally two houses but now a single house attached to No 3. It dates from the mid to late 17th century, with a 20th-century linking section. The structure is built of random rubble limestone, featuring ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof.

The building is two stories high, with a parallel two-story house to the south that has been linked to create a larger residence. The front elevation has a single-window layout on the left gable end, featuring two 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds, where the ground floor casement is a larger 19th-century replacement. There are two raking buttresses at the ground floor. The south gable end has a single-window 2-light mullioned fenestration, with a later ground floor casement inserted to the left. On the south side, there are two half gables on the north building, each with a 2-light casement, although the right one is partly obscured by the later linking addition. The north side has a full gable with a rebuilt chimney. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

5 Swan Cottages receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 2008
  • 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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