This website is currently in beta. If you wish to go back to the current site please click here. To provide feedback or find out more about this site, please click here.

Pubs & Clubs
Events
Beers & Breweries
Pubs & Clubs
Events
Beers & Breweries
Join Us
Good Beer Guide
Heritage Pub

Swan Inn, Falmer

Middle Street, Falmer, BN1 9PD (Directions)
No website available
Improve This Listing

Cosy, traditional, family-run free house in a village close to the universities. There are three bars, including a narrow public bar together with an adjacent Barn with bar which is open on Albion match days and for occasional events. The pub is over 100 years old and the walls are adorned with antique adverts and pictures of the village in days past. Food will be available Wednesday to Sunday at lunchtime together with Thursday and Friday evenings from the end of January 2023; please check availability. Being close to the Amex stadium, the pub is very busy on Brighton match days when only home fans may be admitted and there is no parking available. Closed Mondays except match days. Local CAMRA POTY 2024, Highly Commended

Information for this venue is provided by the Brighton & South Downs Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Premises Comment
Operator
Independent
Local Authority
Lewes District
Last updated
03/05/2024
Last surveyed
22/01/2024
Pub ID
BRI/15
Asset of Community Value

One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest

Listed status: II

Old brick and flint three-bar pub. in the same family for over 100 years. Most of the fittings in the narrow middle room can be dated to around 1947 (the date on the handpumps). The left-hand bar has fittings (three-sided counter, dado panelling, parquet flooring) from the 1930s - the room was extended in 1969. The right-hand bar, extended in 1986, has an old-looking counter.

General information about historic pub interiors

Part 18th, part 19th century brick and flint pub with three bars that has been in the same family for over 100 years. The narrow middle room has fittings from c.1947 - the date on the handpumps - the bar back shelves on fielded panelling could date from c.1947 but two fridges have replaced most of the lower shelving. Note the small swivel leaded window between the left and middle bars; there is a model railway over the bar counter! It has old dado panelling and the two 'Public Bar' etched windows only date from the early 2000s - note they face inward, not the normal, outward.

The left hand bar has fittings from the 1930s - a three sided 1930s counter with a apron of green tiles around it, parquet floor on the staff side, dado panelling looks 1930s. The room was extended to the far left in 1969 and the fireplace in the original part was replaced then It has modern 'Bar Parlour' windows. The right hand bar has an old looking counter but is it? In 1986 the room was extended into a former private room by a wide gap in the wall. Marginal. Near the main entrance between the public bar and the right hand room are a number of doors as there was an off-sales here in the past. Outside gents on the right of the pub.

General information about historic pub interiors
Premium Access Required

You must be a Digital Subscriber or CAMRA Member to be able to view specially curated GBG descriptions

Premium Access Required
Seen some incorrect or missing details? Improve this listing.
Opening
Food
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
16:00-23:00
Wednesday
Noon-23:00
Noon-14:30
Thursday
Noon-23:00
Noon-20:15
Friday
Noon-23:00
Noon-20:15
Saturday
Noon-23:00
Noon-15:00
Sunday
Noon-22:30
Noon-16:00
Spotted an error with the opening times? Let us know

Current beers

This Pub serves 3 changing beers and 1 regular beer.

Regular and recently seen

Swan Inn, Falmer

Add it to our list and share what's currently being served!.
Are you a CAMRA member? Contribute by submitting a beer score
Spot a Beer
Submit beer score

Changing beers typically include: Downlands (varies) , Long Man (varies) , Palmers (varies)

Source: Regional

Do you know what Regular beers or changing beers this Pub serves? Let us know
Your scores
Join CAMRA to access beer scoring and view scores for other pubs.
Become a member.
Retrieving scores
You have no beer scores submitted.

Facilities
Sports TV Sports TV
Lunchtime Meals Lunchtime Meals
Not Monday or Tuesday
Evening Meals Evening Meals
Thursday and Friday only
Live Music Live Music
Occasional
Garden Garden
Family Friendly Family Friendly
Disabled Access Disabled Access
Parking Parking
Not on Albion match days
Dog Friendly Dog Friendly
Function Room Function Room
Adjacent Barn with bar
Games Games
Real Fire Real Fire
Separate Bar Separate Bar
Smoking Smoking
Wi Fi Wi Fi
Free - Password in Bar
Features
Real Ale Real Ale
Real Heritage Pub Real Heritage Pub
LocAle LocAle
Cask Marque Cask Marque
Quiet Quiet
Transport
Close to bus routes (50m)
28, 29
Nearby Station (700m)
Falmer
Directions
just off A27 in N of village
Are these pub facilities or features correct? Let us know

Nearby

View All
Amex Stadium. (External). Published on 02-08-2013
Amex Stadium
Real Ale Available
Other Venue
0.3 miles - Village Way, Falmer, BN1 9BL
Exterior. (Pub, External). Published on 07-09-2018
Ruby
Real Ale Available
Pub
1.1 miles - Coldean Lane, Brighton, BN1 9GD
exterior. (Pub, External, Key). Published on 18-01-2018
Bevy
Pub
1.9 miles - 50 Hillside, Brighton, BN2 4TF
Exterior. (Pub, External). Published on 01-09-2013
Downs Hotel
Real Ale Available
Pub
1.9 miles - Warren Road, Woodingdean, BN2 6BB
Exterior. (Pub, External). Published on 17-09-2019
New Oak
Real Ale Available
Pub
2.2 miles - County Oak Avenue, Brighton, BN1 8DJ
Exterior. (Pub, External). Published on 16-05-2019
Hollingbury Park Golf Club
Club
2.2 miles - Ditchling Road, Brighton, BN1 7HS
Exterior. (Pub, External). Published on 02-07-2013
Juggs
Real Ale Available
Pub
2.5 miles - The Street, Kingston, BN7 3NT
Exterior. (Pub, External). Published on 15-11-2018
Bear Inn
Pub
2.6 miles - 109 Lewes Road, Brighton, BN2 4AE
Window. (Pub, External). Published on 21-12-2020
Long Man of Wilmington
Real Ale Available
Pub
2.7 miles - Wilmington Way, Brighton, BN1 8JH
Exterior. (Pub, External). Published on 25-02-2019
Fox on the Downs
Real Ale Available
Pub
2.7 miles - 291 Elm Grove, Brighton, BN2 3EA

The Good Beer Guide 2024

With an unmistakable cover design, we are excited to announce that the foreword for this year’s Good Beer Guide has been penned by Bruce Dickinson, frontman and lead singer of Iron Maiden. © Campaign for Real Ale – Bruce Dickinson...

Home
© Campaign for real ale 2023 - 2024