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The Swan Inn

A Grade II Listed Building in Needham Market, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1518 / 52°9'6"N

Longitude: 1.0533 / 1°3'11"E

OS Eastings: 608976

OS Northings: 254790

OS Grid: TM089547

Mapcode National: GBR TLL.33M

Mapcode Global: VHLBC.65PR

Plus Code: 9F435323+P8

Entry Name: The Swan Inn

Listing Date: 9 December 1955

Last Amended: 19 May 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1253650

English Heritage Legacy ID: 436900

ID on this website: 101253650

Location: Needham Market, Mid Suffolk, IP6

County: Suffolk

District: Mid Suffolk

Civil Parish: Needham Market

Built-Up Area: Needham Market

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Needham Market with Badley St John the Baptist

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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Description


NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (WEST)
TM 0854

3/71 The Swan Inn (formerly
listed as No.9 (Swan
9.12.55 Hotel))

II

Public house, late C16 with alterations of 1850 (date on building). A 3-cell
building with cross-passage entrance. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and
plastered, the two end cells were jettied towards the High Street until C19
when the front walls were underbuilt in gault brick (now painted) up to 1st
floor level, and the left-hand gable was also encased. Plaintiled roofs; the
end cells have large gablets designed to appear as cross-wings; they have
bargeboards pierced with linked circles and with spike finials. A central
gabled dormer of similar design also bears the date 1850. Axial and end
chimneys of gault brick. Small-pane sashes of c.1850; at ground storey is a
central paired sash and at each end a splayed flat-roofed bay. C19 entrance
door of 3 panels, the upper pair are glazed with an etched design which
includes a Swan motif; a pair of pilasters and simple pediment. In the hall
are roll-moulded floor joists and a matching binding-joist, all reused from an
earlier C16 building. In the formerly jettied front wall is a carved pilaster
with the knee above, now exposed within the bar. Other late C16 framing is
plain, but the attic floor members have composite ovolo-moulding. Clasped
purlin roof. The will of Sir Francis Needham (d.1632) mentions the Inn under
its previous name of The King's Head.


Listing NGR: TM0897654790

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