The Swan Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. Public house, hotel. 3 related planning applications.
The Swan Hotel
- WRENN ID
- third-clay-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Public house, hotel
- Address
- The Swan Hotel, Main Street, Aberford, LS25 3AA
- OS grid reference
- SE 433 372
- Coordinates
- 53.8294, -1.34327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan Hotel is a coaching inn, now a public house and hotel, likely dating from the mid to late 18th century and altered internally. It is constructed of limestone with a white-painted stucco facade, featuring a stone slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with two storeys and a cellar, spanning four bays, including a receding wing and a rear extension to the fourth bay.
An entrance is provided by a segmental-headed coach archway through the ground floor of the third bay. The passage to the right of the archway incorporates a blocked doorway with a coach bell above. Flanking the archway are two-storey canted bays with 12-pane sash windows and sillbands on both floors. The right-hand bay is wider with a round-headed, recessed cellar door on its right side and a four-pane sash window above the archway displaying a moulded name plate reading "SWAN HOTEL". To the left of the leftmost bay is a doorway approached by five steps, paired with a 16-pane sashed window on each floor. Chimneys are positioned at the left end of the building, on the ridge, and on the ridge of the wing.
The right return wall features an added single-storey porch and various sash windows. The rear has a single-storey extension to the second bay and a longer extension to the receding wing of the fourth bay, constructed in two sections with roughcast rendering. Ridge chimneys punctuate the roof, which is hipped and swept at the right-hand end. The interior has been altered.
Local climate
The Swan Hotel receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 2 transactions since 2019
- 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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