The Swan is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Public house.
The Swan
- WRENN ID
- low-vault-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Swan, High Street, Brightlingsea
- OS grid reference
- TM 087 167
- Coordinates
- 51.81077, 1.02684
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan is a public house with origins dating back to the 16th century, with additions from the 17th century on the left side, and later alterations and additions around 1905. The building is timber framed and rough rendered, topped with red plain tiled roofs. It stands two storeys high with attics and features gabled crossings on the right and left sides, along with a central gable added in the 20th century. There are angled two-storey bays on both sides, and a single-storey porch made of grey slate, supported by cast iron columns with ornate scrolled brackets, which extends between the crosswings.
The structure includes two external red brick chimney stacks on the left and one on the right, as well as a red brick stack on the rear ridge of the left crosswing. The gables on the right and left have batten decoration and a square light, while the central gable features a triangular light. The angled bays contain two-light transomed casements. There are three similar windows on the first floor and one on the ground floor to the right and left, flanked by 20th-century glazed doors. Additionally, there is a north oriel window from the 18th or 19th century.
Local climate
The Swan sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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