Swanson House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. Guest house and restaurant. 3 related planning applications.
Swanson House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-balcony-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1984
- Type
- Guest house and restaurant
- Address
- Swanson House, Market Street, Brough, CA17 4BL
- OS grid reference
- NY 794 146
- Coordinates
- 54.52656, -2.31902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swanson House is a former post office and shop, later adapted into a guest house and restaurant, likely dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, with subsequent additions. The front elevation is pebble-dashed with rusticated quoins on the west end. It has a Welsh slate roof and a stone chimney on the east end. The building is three storeys high and four bays wide. It features an elliptical-headed wagon entrance leading to Swan Avenue on the left, and a 19th-century shop front on the right. Four sash windows are present on each floor above.
Local climate
Swanson House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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