One of the nation’s largest pub chains has confirmed it will not be taking over a historic hotel that recently sold after years on the market.
On March 3, estate agents Savills confirmed that they have now completed on the sale of the Swan Hotel in Bradford on Avon.
Rumours that it had been sold emerged on social media last week, when a resident said he had heard it had been sold to a pub group that operates in Bath.
Other social media posts indicated, often humorously, that the venue may have been scooped up by Wetherspoon.
However, after being approached for comment, Eddie Gershon, a spokesperson for the pub chain, confirmed the historic site will not be becoming a Wetherspoon.
The property had been on the market since it closed in late 2023 and had been ‘under offer’ on Savills’s site for more than a year after one was made in February 2025.
As reported at the time, the Swan closed in mid-September 2023, when its lease owner/manager, James Sullivan-Tailyour decided to focus his Wiltshire Inns business on the Old Bell Hotel in Warminster.
The Grade II-listed 17th-century coaching hotel on the corner of Church Street has a history dating back to 1500, but its façade is from the Georgian period.
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