The Swan Inn is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Swan Inn
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-clay-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Swan Inn, the Street, Alderton, IP12 3BL
- OS grid reference
- TM 343 416
- Coordinates
- 52.02411, 1.41489
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan Inn is a public house dating from the 17th century. It is timber framed with rendered fronts that are pebbledashed and colourwashed, topped with a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys.
On the road front, there are two doorways, one to the right of centre and one on the left, both with cambered heads. Flanking these doorways are two 4-light 19th-century casement windows, also with cambered heads, one to the right and one to the left of centre, along with a 2-light window with a cambered head at the far left. The first floor features two 3-light casement windows, one on the right and one on the left, plus another at the far left. The gable stacks have two flues each, and the gable ends are blank. At the rear, there is a single-storeyed service wing that projects to the right.
Inside, the ground floor has chamfered and encased ceiling beams.
Local climate
The Swan Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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