Swan Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 May 1970. Hotel.

Swan Hotel

WRENN ID
carved-clay-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 May 1970
Type
Hotel
Address
Swan Hotel, Knighton
OS grid reference
SO 287 722
Coordinates
52.34333, -3.0477
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Swan Hotel is a three-storey building with a basement, featuring a three-bay front made of 19th-century stucco. On the right side, there is a 17th-century timber-framed cross-wing, which may have originally been part of a larder house.

The right-hand gable is advanced by the depth of one window and jettied, with plain bargeboards on a heightened slate roof. The ground floor has boxed bressumers supported by curved brackets, and there are casement windows. Below a decorative ironwork public house sign, there is a cellar entrance. The front has a gablet at the center above paired casement windows and a recessed entrance that is sheltered by a flat timber canopy, leading to a half-glazed door. To the left, there is a broad gable, and above a two-storey splayed bay window, there is a wide hood that connects to a band course over the ground floor. The right side elevation is rendered with a brick base and features five gables, all with casement windows.

Local climate

Swan Hotel receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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