Swan Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 April 1985. Hotel.
Swan Hotel
- WRENN ID
- distant-corner-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1985
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Swan Hotel, Abergavenny, NP7 5EU
- OS grid reference
- SO 300 139
- Coordinates
- 51.82022, -3.01609
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Swan Hotel is a building that has been completely rendered and painted, topped with natural slate roofs. It consists of two sections: a single depth main entrance range and a double depth rear range that is at right angles and predates the main section.
The main facade is three storeys high and features five bays with a rounded corner. It is flanked by pedimented frontispieces on each side, which are set slightly forward from the main facade. These pedimented sections have round arched windows with architraves and keyblocks, arranged in groups of two and three at the advanced bays. The ground floor has a continuous band that arches over the windows, which were originally part of an open loggia. The windows here are mid-20th century infill, as is the very basic porch on bay 2.
On the first floor, there are single slight windows in bays 1, 3, and 5, a three-light window in bay 2, and a tripartite sash in bay 4. All of these are 1 over 1 pane sashes. The second floor features a cillband with single windows, except for paired windows in bays 2 and 4. The building has deep eaves with altered pediments, hipped roofs, and no chimneys. The left return of the building is one bay wide with paired windows on the upper floors.
There is a three-window central entrance elevation to the attached building on Cross Street, which has a rusticated doorway that is now blocked. This doorway is flanked by three-light plate glass sashes, which are also a 20th century alteration. The first floor has 8 over 8 pane sashes with narrow glazing bars, while the upper floor features 3 over 6 pane windows. The building has deep eaves, a hipped roof, and no stacks.
A tall narrow stair window is present on the north elevation, and both rear elevations are plain and have been altered. The interior of the building was not inspected during the resurvey.
Local climate
Swan Hotel receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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