Swan Hotel

LAVENHAM HIGH STREET 1. 5377 (east side) Swan Hotel (that part formerly listed as Swan Inn) TL 9149 50/590 23.1.58 II* GV 2. A timber-framed and plastered building probably of C14-C15 origin with cross wings at the north and south ends with jettied upper storeys on exposed joists. There is another small gable with a jettied upper storey on the north of the south cross wing. Roofs tiled. The timber-framing is mainly exposed on the west front and there is a return frontage on Water Street with pargetted emblems of the wool trade (cf Nos 11 and 12 Church Street), the mitre, fleur-de-Lys and spur rowel. There are also modern mullioned and transomed windows in old style. Two storeys and extensive cellars. On the Water Street front there is a large gable east of which has been restored and renovated, with exposed timber-framing and mullioned and transomed windows in old style. Part of the ground storey is faced in red brick.

Listing NGR: TL9154149173