The Swan is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House, public house. 1 related planning application.

The Swan

WRENN ID
crumbling-pilaster-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1987
Type
House, public house
Address
The Swan, A143, Palgrave, IP22 1AN
OS grid reference
TM 115 783
Coordinates
52.36274, 1.10613
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Swan is a house that was later converted into a public house. It dates from the late 16th century and was altered in the 20th century. The building has a timber frame that is plastered and features a steeply pitched pantiled roof. It has a three-cell lobby entry plan and is one storey high with an attic. The entrance is located in a closed brick porch with a slate hood, positioned to the left of centre. Flanking the entrance are 20th-century three-light glazing bar casements, and to the right, there is a two-light gabled dormer. A ridge stack is situated behind the entrance with a rebuilt capping, and there is an added stack on the right gable end. The left end has a brick outshut addition.

Inside, the ground floor features a quadruple roll moulded axial binding beam in the hall and a stop-chamfered cross axial bearer to the left, which leads to the parlour end. There is an 18th-century panelled screen at the lower end of the hall. On the first floor, a base cruck truss is located between the hall bays, with the tenon of the brace to the raised tie beam still in place. The roof structure includes butt purlins and collars to the principal rafters.

Local climate

The Swan sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
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