Swingate Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1987. Public house.

Swingate Inn

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1987
Type
Public house
Address
Swingate Inn, Dover Road, St. Margaret's at Cliffe
OS grid reference
TR 335 440
Coordinates
51.14819, 1.33818
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Swingate Inn is a public house dating from around 1800. It features a rendered exterior and a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys set on a plinth, with a rusticated ground floor and boxed eaves at the roof, which has stacks positioned at the left end and offset at the right end. On the first floor, there are two canted oriel windows, while the ground floor has three glazing bar sash windows. The central entrance includes a canted porch, which originally had an iron balustrade that is now missing, and a board door to the left. To the left, there is a single-storey outshot, and to the right, a two-storey flat-roofed extension. The name "Swingate Inn" comes from a swing gate that used to be over the road, which was turnpiked in 1797.

Local climate

Swingate Inn receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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