Beccles Swan House
opening hours
- Mon: 1600-2100
- Tue-Sat: 1200-2100
- Sun: 1200-2000
food times
- Mon-Tue: closed
- Wed-Sun: 1200-1500
listed building grade II
Local licensing authority for Beccles is East Suffolk
CAMRA North-East Suffolk branch.
last updated Nov 29th, 2023.
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Beccles Swan House
formerly White Swan, Swan, El Andaluz at the Swan House
West, 52.45796,1.56243
Cask Ale is understood not to be sold here.
34 New Market, NR34 9HE
grid reference TM 421 904
restaurant/bar, opened 1538
Seating is available inside the property and, in warmer months, on a patio between the pub and the adjacent Beccles Town Hall.
The building is Grade 2 listed.
The Swan is first mentioned in documents of 1600.
Facilities
Accommodation available: 5 guest rooms
Beer garden or other outside drinking area: patio area
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks): Summer menu of smaller bites, platters, desserts and cakes served 12-3 Wed-Sun
Restaurant or separate dining area
Railway station about 0.3 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Beccles: 528 yards (482m)
Old Tap 0.03 mile
King's Head Hotel 0.04 mile
Bear & Bells 0.12 mile
Oakfired at Royal Oak 0.23 mile
Ingate 0.54 mileHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1903 (interactive map)
Owner/operator: free
This pleasant hostelry offers a good range of food and drink, including a selection of 50 bottled beers. Regular jazz & folk evenings. Advisable to book tables in the restaurant.
Beer: Adnams Bitter, Old, Broadside.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
May also be listed at 36 New Market
To be lett, the White Swan in Beccles, with a large Stable, Coach-House etc. Enquire of William Clarke at Bungay or of James Gardiner, the present Tenant.Ipswich Journal, June 19th 1766***
The Beccles Brewery was sold with a house, gardens, building plots, a hotel [Kings Head] and 32 public houses previously owned by Frederick William Farr, at the Kings Head in Beccles on 28 Apr 1852…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
