The Swan Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

The Swan Inn

WRENN ID
muffled-chalk-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
Public house
Address
The Swan Inn, High Street, Grendon Underwood, HP18 0SW
OS grid reference
SP 683 206
Coordinates
51.88009, -1.00802
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Swan Inn is a public house dating from the 17th to early 18th century, with some alterations. It features a colourwashed roughcast exterior and a thatched roof, with a brick chimney on the right and a roughcast chimney on the left. The building is 1½ storeys high and consists of three bays. It has barred wooden casements, including a 5-light canted bay window on the left, a 3-light casement on the ground floor to the right, and three 2-light casements in the thatch. The central door, which is from the 20th century, has a flat wooden hood supported by brackets. The lower bay on the left is made of colourwashed rubble stone and has a brick lean-to in front. There is also a single-storey 20th-century extension set back to the right, constructed of colourwashed brick with a slate roof.

Local climate

The Swan Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
  • 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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