The Swan Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1972. A Early C19 Inn.

The Swan Inn

WRENN ID
moated-brick-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Teignbridge
Constituency
Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1972
Type
Inn
Address
The Swan Inn, 4, Highweek Street, Newton Abbot
OS grid reference
SX 857 713
Coordinates
50.5307, -3.61376
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Swan Inn is an inn with an early 19th-century facade, likely built onto an 18th-century structure. It features painted render and freestone dressings, topped with a slate roof that has two ridge stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high with a symmetrical five-window arrangement. Architectural details include a moulded eaves cornice and a blocking course that curves around the left-hand corner, along with an eaves band.

On the first floor, there is a sill band and plinth, with 4/4-pane sash windows. The central bay is slightly stepped forward and has a semicircular-arched window beneath an open pediment. The ground floor windows are early 20th-century plate glass with two-pane overlights, arranged with two windows on the left and one on the right. The central entrance features a semi-elliptical arch, while a four-panel door to the far right has a semicircular arch and radial glazing bars in the fanlight. The roof includes four small gabled dormers.

The interior of the ground floor has been altered but appears to have a boxed-in axial beam; the upper floors have not been seen.

Local climate

The Swan Inn receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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