Swan House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House.

Swan House

WRENN ID
stranded-glass-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Swan House, Sand Street, Milverton
OS grid reference
ST 120 257
Coordinates
51.02469, -3.25594
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Swan House is a house dating from the late 17th century, which was refronted and extended in the early and mid-19th century, and refronted again around 1900. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with a roughcast front and has a hipped concrete tile roof on the right side. The house features an early 19th-century brick stack at the left end and a ridge stack that was finished in mid-20th century brick.

The layout consists of a three-room plan, with a parlour on the left, a narrow central hall that has a stack backing onto the entrance passage, and a service end on the right. The building is two storeys high and has a four-window range. The entrance is marked by an early 19th-century pedimented doorcase supported by Tuscan columns, featuring a reeded frieze, panelled reveals, and a six-panelled door with an iron knocker.

To the left, there is a bay window from around 1900, which has horned sashes and bracketed eaves. The left side of the door and the first floor have 19th-century three-light casements with iron opening casements, while there is a mid-20th-century shop window on the right. The early 19th-century left rear wing has a slate roof, a rendered end stack, and two-light iron casements with leaded lights. Further back is a mid-19th-century workshop wing made of brick, featuring a gabled slate roof and 19th-century eight-pane casements. A late 20th-century right rear wing is rendered with a concrete tile roof.

Inside, the house retains original and 18th-century joinery, including panelled doors and a staircase. The ground floor has chamfered beams and two open fireplaces. Notably, the room on the left side of the ground floor has a well-preserved late 17th-century plaster ceiling, divided into twelve panels by quartered beams, with moulded cornicing in two central panels and ornamental centres in moulded roundels.

Local climate

Swan House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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