The Swan

The Swan is a public house located on Swan Road in Worlingworth. It dates from the mid-16th century, featuring a parlour end and stack, with the rest of the building likely being even older. There are 19th-century additions to the structure. The building is timber framed and mainly covered in roughcast render, while the front, facing south, has a ground floor that is either cased or rebuilt in 19th-century red brick. It has scalloped bargeboards and a thatched roof, standing two storeys high with an attic. The layout consists of three cells. There are three 19th-century casement windows on the ground floor and two on the first floor, each with a single horizontal glazing bar per light. The building features two mid-20th-century doors. Inside, there is an internal stack with a shaft rebuilt in white brick, and an external stack on the right gable end. Each gable end has a single-storey addition made of red brick and pantiles, and there is a rear lean-to constructed from colourwashed brick. The interior has been modernised, particularly on the ground floor. The earlier section consists of two bays with irregular, widely spaced studding exposed on the upper floor, and the roof appears to be of common-rafter form, which was once hipped over the service end. The parlour addition is slightly taller and features a well-preserved roof with one row of clasped purlins and two-way wind braces.