The Swan Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Swan Inn
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-railing-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Swan Inn, Lower Street, Merriott, TA16 5NN
- OS grid reference
- ST 445 123
- Coordinates
- 50.90798, -2.79065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan Inn is an early 19th-century inn located on the south side of Lower Street in Merriott. The front facade is constructed of Ham stone ashlar, while the sides and rear are of coursed rubble. The roof is covered with Welsh slate, set between high stepped coped gables that suggest a former thatched roofline, and features brick end chimney stacks, one of which is rendered. The inn is two storeys high and has two bays. It has small-pane 3-light casement windows with voussoired flat-arched heads. A 20th-century porch with a slate roof and a part-glazed door has been added to the centre. The interior of the inn was not inspected during the listing process. The inn is attached to No. 42, but is set back and is included in the listing primarily for its group value. It was recorded as an inn by 1866, as documented in the Victoria County History of Somerset, Volume IV, published in 1978.
Local climate
The Swan Inn receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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