Swan Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Hotel.

Swan Hotel

WRENN ID
former-parapet-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1958
Type
Hotel
Address
Swan Hotel, Water Street, Lavenham, CO10 9QA
OS grid reference
TL 915 491
Coordinates
52.10765, 0.7961
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Swan Hotel is a 16th-century timber-framed building that has been extensively restored. It features exposed timber framing with plaster infill and has a tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high and includes two mullioned and transomed windows in an old style on the ground floor, along with one casement window on the upper floor, all fitted with leaded lights.

Local climate

Swan Hotel 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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