Strattons Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. Hotel. 1 related planning application.

Strattons Hotel

WRENN ID
forgotten-sentry-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 January 1973
Type
Hotel
Address
Strattons Hotel, 4, Ash Close, Swaffham
OS grid reference
TF 818 091
Coordinates
52.64936, 0.6872
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Strattons Hotel is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with a later addition from around 1890 at the east end. The original section is built of red brick and has a pantiled roof, while the addition is also red brick but features a machine-tiled roof.

The building is single storey with a dormer attic above a basement and has a five-window range. The central bay projects under a gable, with four, two, and three-light 20th-century basement windows. There are central late 20th-century double-leaf doors flanked by small late 20th-century windows on either side, accessed by a flight of stone steps with square-section wrought-iron railings. The steps include a central roundel with keyblocks that light the basement. A Diocletian window is located in the gable head, adorned with keyblocks and a painted sundial face.

On the main first floor, there is an outer Venetian window on either side, fitted with 1/1 unhorned sashes, along with two additional 1/1 simple sashes. The roof is gabled, featuring two gabled dormers with 1/1 unhorned sashes. Internal gable-end stacks are present on both the west and east sides.

The two-storey addition to the east has an irregular four-window range, with a 20th-century door to the left and three 1/1 horned sashes to the right, plus four more 1/1 horned sashes on the first floor. This section has a hipped roof with a gable over the centre of the facade, which contains a Diocletian window. Stacks are located on the side slopes.

Inside, the 18th-century range features cornices in the principal rooms and 19th-century fireplaces. There is a 19th-century staircase with bobbin-turned balusters and a ramped handrail, as well as a 19th-century range with splat balusters on a closed-string staircase and panelled newels topped with ball finials.

Local climate

Strattons Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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