Swanbourne House School is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. School. 6 related planning applications.

Swanbourne House School

WRENN ID
dusted-shingle-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
School
Address
Swanbourne House School, Swanbourne House Hill, MK17 0HZ
OS grid reference
SP 799 270
Coordinates
51.93634, -0.8389
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Swanbourne House School is a school that was originally a mansion with an attached service wing, dated 1865 according to the rainwater heads. It was designed by William Burn for the Fremantle family. The building is constructed of white brick with stone dressings, featuring slate roofs and white brick chimneys topped with moulded stone caps. It is designed in a classical style, characterized by quoins, a moulded plinth with stone panels below the ground floor windows, a second floor sill course, a moulded cornice, and a balustraded parapet.

The north front has three storeys and consists of five bays, with the outer bays slightly projecting. The sash windows on the ground floor do not have glazing bars and are set within architrave surrounds, featuring plain friezes and moulded cornices above. The upper windows have shouldered architraves. The centre of the building features a projecting single-storey porch with a balustraded parapet, similar sash windows on either side, and double panelled doors in an architrave surround, flanked by Doric columns and an entablature.

On the right side, there are three bays with canted bay windows on the ground floor of the outer bays. The rear of the building has seven bays, with the outer pair of bays on each side slightly projecting and ground floor windows set back in segmental relieving arches. The service block to the east has a plain parapet, cornice, first floor band course, plinth, and plain window surrounds. This block is two storeys high with nine bays, four of which project. The two left bays have barred windows on the ground floor, while the remaining bays have sashes. A four-panelled door in the right-hand bay is sheltered by a porch with a pair of arches on Doric piers.

Local climate

Swanbourne House School receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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