Former part of Swan Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. Inn. 3 related planning applications.

Former part of Swan Inn

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 November 1954
Type
Inn
Address
Former part of Swan Inn, Swan House, the Street, Woolpit, IP30 9QN
OS grid reference
TL 973 623
Coordinates
52.22442, 0.88833
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building known as Swan House is a former part of the Swan Inn, with its origins dating back to the 16th century. It underwent remodelling in 1759, which is noted on the plaster gable of the right-hand dormer. The structure is timber-framed and encased in 18th-century red brick, featuring rusticated painted brick quoins. The roof is plaintiled and includes two gabled casement dormers with leaded lights.

The building has a large 18th-century axial chimney made of red brick, along with an internal end chimney on the left side, topped with a parapet gable. It stands two storeys high with attics and has three windows on the front. The first storey features three 18th-century three-light casements with leaded lights, while the ground storey has small-pane 19th-century sash windows with cambered heads. There is also a flat-roofed mid-20th-century splayed bay.

To the left, there is an 18th or 19th-century four-panelled entrance door with a small oblong fanlight above it. Another entrance has a 20th-century eight-panelled door with a flat canopy. Above this entrance is a prominent plastered niche with rusticated quoins, intended to hold a statue. Inside, one of the ground storey ceilings retains a heavy structure typical of the early 16th century, and it appears that the roof was raised in the 18th century.

Local climate

Former part of Swan Inn 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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