The Swan is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. Inn. 5 related planning applications.

The Swan

WRENN ID
stark-gateway-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Gloucestershire
Constituency
Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 December 1984
Type
Inn
Address
The Swan, the Green, Olveston, BS32 4NJ
OS grid reference
ST 608 864
Coordinates
51.57582, -2.56582
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Swan is a 17th-century inn, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of rubble and brick, with a pantiled roof and a gable stack to the south wing. The building follows a T-plan, comprising three blocks of different heights and including a cross wing to the south. It is two storeys high and has a 1:1:1 window arrangement on the front elevation. The left block features two three-light casements at the first floor, with leaded lights and a timber lintel, and a three-light casement at ground floor with a brick relieving arch. A gabled porch originally open, now has a round-headed window to the front and a 20th-century door to the left. The centre block has a four-light and a two-light casement at the first floor, with leaded lights, a three-light casement under the eaves, and plank shutters to the windows flanking the porch. The right block has an 18-pane sash window at ground and first floor facing north, a similar window on the first floor facing the front, and a panelled door. The north elevation includes steps leading to a door at loft level. The south elevation contains a 19th-century sash window, two blocked windows at the first floor, and a blocked attic window to the east of the wing. The rear of the building has 19th and 20th-century extensions, both single-storey. Internally, there is a 20th-century winder staircase, a door with a chamfered Tudor arched head at the first floor, plank and batten doors, and in the south room on the first floor, chamfered and scroll-stopped beams.

Local climate

The Swan receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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  • 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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