Avon Water House is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. House.
Avon Water House
- WRENN ID
- silver-ember-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Avon Water House, Barrows Lane, Sway
- OS grid reference
- SZ 279 970
- Coordinates
- 50.77222, -1.60475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Avon Water House is a house built in the mid-19th century, with extensions added in the late 19th century. It is constructed of painted brick and features a slate roof. The building is oriented end on to the road and consists of two stories with four bays, along with a 1½ storey bay at the far end and a service range at the rear that includes further extensions.
The front of the house has a square-plan, flat-roofed porch on the right-hand bay of the main block, which contains a four-panel door and a dentilled cornice. On the first floor, there is a low-set small 12-pane sash window. The other bays also feature 12-pane sash windows. The roof is hipped, and the right-hand end includes the 1½ storey bay with a hipped roof.
Local climate
Avon Water House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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