Black Swan Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1976. Inn. 1 related planning application.

Black Swan Inn

WRENN ID
vacant-hearth-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 July 1976
Type
Inn
Address
Black Swan Inn, West Street, Leominster, HR6 8EP
OS grid reference
SO 494 589
Coordinates
52.22678, -2.74075
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Black Swan Inn is an 18th-century inn located on West Street in Leominster. It features painted brick construction with a plain tile roof, and has both a brick end stack and an axial stack at the rear. The building stands three storeys tall with a cellar and has a four-window range, including 8/8 sash windows and a 3/6 sash window on the left, all set in moulded cases beneath cambered stucco lintels. There are also 20th-century casements and a blocked light, with brick modillion eaves.

The entrance is positioned to the center right and consists of 20th-century double doors with six panels, set within a doorcase that has a moulded open-pediment cambered hood supported by consoles and plain pilasters. To the right of the entrance is a 6/6 sash window, while to the left are paired 6/1 sashes, both under cambered stucco lintels. On the left side, there is a carriageway leading to the rear, featuring early 20th-century glazed and panelled double doors with etched-glass side-lights in a canted return. A 20th-century wrought-iron sign-hanger is also present. The rear of the building includes a roughcast parallel range and a gable wing, both with plain tile roofs and brick stacks. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Black Swan Inn receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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