The Swan Inn Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1969. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Swan Inn Public House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1969
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Swan Inn Public House, 28, Market Place, Wantage, OX12 8AE
- OS grid reference
- SU 397 878
- Coordinates
- 51.58846, -1.42797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan Inn Public House is a building that originally served as a house, with remnants of a 15th-century service end from No. 27, which is nearby. It has undergone later alterations and was originally timber-framed, now clad in 18th-century Flemish bond brick that has been colourwashed. The roof is covered with old tiles and features a brick stack. The original layout of the building is not clearly defined.
The structure is two storeys high and has a four-window range. The ground floor has segmental arches, while the first floor features timber lintels above two late 19th-century sash windows and five late 19th-century two-light casements. The roof is gabled and has a lateral stack at the front. The left gable end, which adjoins No. 27, includes a mid-18th-century sash window above a door and a window from around 1970.
Inside, the building displays exposed timber framing, with an arch brace that connects to No. 27. This framing has mortice holes indicating where other framing once existed on the site of the Swan. The assembly for the front jetty extends through to No. 27, and there is a jowled post supporting a chamfered and stopped beam. The roof structure, likely from the 17th century, is obscured.
Local climate
The Swan Inn Public House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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