Lavenham Wool Hall

Lavenham Wool Hall, also known as the Swan Hotel, is a timber framed building on Lady Street in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. Dating from the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries, it has been protected since 1958 as a listed building (Grade I).[1][2]

Lavenham Wool Hall
Lavenham Wool Hall is located in Suffolk
Lavenham Wool Hall
Former namesThe Hall of the Guild of the Blessed Virgin
General information
TypeGuildhall
Town or cityLavenham
Coordinates52.107519°N 0.796385°E / 52.107519; 0.796385
Completed1464
ClientThe Guild of the Blessed Virgin
Technical details
Structural systemJettied timber framing

History

The building started life as a guildhall. It belonged to the Guild of the Blessed Virgin, one of the four medieval guilds in Lavenham. It was converted into a Wool Hall in the late seventeenth century.[2]

It was restored by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll around 1911 who then transferred it to Mrs Culver and it became the Railway Women's Convalescent Home. After the home closed, it was acquired by Trust Houses and incorporated into the Swan Hotel in 1963.[3]

See also

References
  1. The Buildings of England, Suffolk. Nikolaus Pevsner, Yale University Press ISBN 978-0300096484
  2. "Swan Hotel". British Listed Buildings.
  3. "Railway Women's Convalescent Home". Retrieved 25 August 2020.

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