Swan House Inn and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1984. Inn. 1 related planning application.

Swan House Inn and Attached Outbuilding

WRENN ID
far-cobalt-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 July 1984
Type
Inn
Address
Swan House Inn and Attached Outbuilding, High Street, Fowlmere, SG8 7SR
OS grid reference
TL 420 458
Coordinates
52.09278, 0.07243
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Swan House Inn, now a restaurant, dates from around 1700 or later and has undergone some alterations. The building is timber-framed and roughcast rendered, featuring a plain tiled roof with a slated rear lean-to. It has a red brick stack on the west gable and a large rectangular stack detached from the gable, which has an exposed ground floor hearth to the east, previously part of a building to the east. The inn is two storeys high, with attics and cellars.

The facade is symmetrical, featuring a central doorway with a stone step, an 18th-century raised and fielded panelled door with a moulded wooden architrave, a rectangular fanlight, and a flat canopy supported by shaped brackets. There are four ground floor flush-framed hung sash windows with margin glazing bars, three first floor twelve-paned hung sash windows, and three hipped casement dormer windows.

Inside, the staircase remains in its original position opposite the main entrance. There is a 20th-century single storey extension to the west that connects the house to a small barn, which is partly weatherboarded and has a plain tiled and thatched roof. The Swan was rebuilt in the 18th century on the site of the earlier Swan Inn, which was destroyed in a village fire in 1634.

Local climate

Swan House Inn and Attached Outbuilding sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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