The Swan Public House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1970. Public house.
The Swan Public House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-spandrel-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1970
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Swan Public House, Southover High Street, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 408 095
- Coordinates
- 50.86852, 0.00043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan Public House is a mid-18th century building that has been altered in the later 19th century. It is constructed of painted brick resting on a deep painted plinth. The building features a moulded cornice beneath a plain tiled roof, which is adorned with ridge cresting. There are end stacks and three large gabled dormers with bargeboards.
The structure has two storeys, attics, and cellars. The first floor has four windows, which are glazing bar sashes, although the second window from the left is blind. To the left and in the centre, there are paired sashes without glazing bars, and a single sash is located to the right. The windows on the left are topped with a cornice hood.
To the right, there is an arched entrance with a gabled hood supported by brackets, and to the left, a semi-circular porch features a pilastered torsion-arched entrance.
Local climate
The Swan Public House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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