The Swan Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
The Swan Hotel
- WRENN ID
- lesser-banister-dawn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Swan Hotel, 9, Upper High Street, Thame, OX9 3ER
- OS grid reference
- SP 707 058
- Coordinates
- 51.74678, -0.97611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan Hotel is a building that dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century and was refronted in the 18th century. It is currently being converted into shops, offices, and a public house. The structure is made of grey brick with red brick dressings and features an old plain-tile complex roof, with a brick end stack on the right and a ridge stack to the right of the center.
The facade is complex, featuring a three-storey central bay, a two-storey, two-window range to the left, and a two-storeys-and-attic, two-window range to the right. There are panelled carriageway doors leading to a flat-arched carriageway in the center. The left and right ranges have 16-pane unhorned sash windows, mostly with brick flat arches. The center has two-light casements with segmental brick heads on the first and second floors, and a single-light casement between the ground and first floors. The left side has a gabled roof, while the center and right have hipped roofs, with a gabled dormer on the right. The rear of the building features timber framing.
Inside, there is a painted wooden ceiling from the late 16th or early 17th century in the upper storey west room of the street range.
Local climate
The Swan Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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