The Old Swan Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1983. Inn. 10 related planning applications.

The Old Swan Inn

WRENN ID
empty-niche-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheltenham
Constituency
Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1983
Type
Inn
Address
The Old Swan Inn, 35 and 37, High Street
OS grid reference
SO 952 221
Coordinates
51.89758, -2.0705
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Old Swan Inn is an inn dating from circa 1810 to 1820, with later additions and alterations, including a rear extension added in the 1980s that is not part of the listed building. It was recorded as trading by 1820 and is shown on the Post Office Map of that year. The construction is stucco over brick, with a concealed roof and stacks. Wrought-iron window guards are present.

The exterior is three storeys high with three windows on the first floor. Stucco detailing includes rustication on the ground floor, drawn into voussoirs that frame the windows and carriage arch. A first-floor band is surmounted by four Doric pilasters, featuring incised decoration. Further incised lines define the first-floor windows, while an incised 'Greek key' motif borders the second-floor windows. The first floor has 6/6 sash windows, the second floor 3/3 sashes, and the ground floor 1/1 sashes, all set in plain reveals; the ground-floor windows are within cambered-arched recesses. The off-centre left entrance has a six-panel door with an overlight. A carriage arch now features double, partially glazed doors within an elliptically-arched surround. A band and blocking course with copings is present, although the cornices are missing. A right return features both 6/6 and 8/8 sash windows.

The interior of the inn was not inspected as part of the listing process.

Subsidiary features include first-floor trellis window guards, also present on the return elevation. The inn is shown on Merrett's 1834 Map as the Old Swan Inn.

Local climate

The Old Swan Inn receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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