York Historic Environment Record

The White Swan Inn is an early 19th-century public house, first recorded as The Swan Inn in 1823. Renamed The White Swan after its façade was whitewashed in the 1870s, it has remained a familiar village landmark for over two centuries. Historic photographs showing chimney alignment and brick markings suggest the original form was a modest two-bay structure flanking a central entrance, later extended on both sides with the chimneys removed. Built of brick, later rendered white beneath a slate roof, the inn typifies the rural public house tradition and contributes strongly to Deighton’s communal identity and historic continuity.