The Swan Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Swan Public House
- WRENN ID
- south-hall-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Swan Public House, High Street, Elstow, MK42 9XU
- OS grid reference
- TL 049 474
- Coordinates
- 52.11566, -0.46819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan Public House is a 16th-century public house situated on Elstow High Street. It is a timber-framed building with colourwashed roughcast render to the ground floor, red brick herringbone infill, and coursed limestone rubble to the ground floor of the north gable end. The roof is tiled with clay. The main two-storey, three-room block bordering the road has a jettied first floor. A single-storey block with attics projects from the rear. The front elevation features a moulded bressumer to the jetty, with the right-hand room's jetty being at a higher level than the rest. The ground floor has two 20th-century canted bays, three small casement windows, and two 20th-century doors. The first floor has two three-light casement windows flanking a four-light casement. One brick ridge stack and one external stack to the north gable end are present. The rear block incorporates a 19th-century canted bay with sash windows containing glazing bars and two gabled dormers with casement windows.
Local climate
The Swan Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2015
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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