Swan Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1952. A C17 Public house.
Swan Inn
- WRENN ID
- scattered-oriel-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1952
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Swan Inn, 3, South Bar Street, Banbury
- OS grid reference
- SP 453 403
- Coordinates
- 52.05956, -1.34022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan Inn is a public house dating from the 17th century, with later alterations that include the replacement of a mullioned window with casements. It is constructed of regularly coursed ironstone rubble and features a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof. The building has a brick end stack to the left on a rendered stone base, a brick lateral stack, and stone coping to the right. It has a three-unit plan and is a single storey plus attic, presenting a three-window range.
The central entrance has a renewed wood surround and an original chamfered lintel, with a 20th-century door. Flanking the entrance are gabled, two-storey canted bay windows. The bay window to the right retains part of its stone mullions, while the rest has been replaced with inserted casements. It also has fragmentary remains of a hood mould. The bay window to the left features casements and similar fragmentary remains of a hood mould. The attic floor has casement windows, some of which have wrought-iron casement fasteners. Between the bays, there is a three-light wood-mullioned window, and there are blocked dormer windows in the gables. Inside, the ground floor has chamfered beams.
Local climate
Swan Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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