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OLD SWAN HOUSE

OLD SWAN HOUSE, 134-140, BRIDGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1365318
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1957
List Entry Name:: OLD SWAN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: OLD SWAN HOUSE, 134-140, BRIDGE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1365318
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1957
List Entry Name:: OLD SWAN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD SWAN HOUSE, 134-140, BRIDGE STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD SWAN HOUSE, 134-140, BRIDGE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:: Wye with Hinxhill
National Grid Reference:: TR 05264 46706

Details

TR 0446 0546 WYE BRIDGE STREET (south side)

8/187 Nos. 134-140 (even) Old 27.11.57 Swan House)

GV II*

House, now cottage row. C15 origin, altered and extended C16-C18. Timber framed on red brick base with some flint and rubble, part exposed with plaster infill and weatherboarded, mostly rendered. Tile hung rear range. Plain tiled roof. Hall house plan in origin, since C18 4 cottages. Two storeys on plinth, with continuous jetty (underbuilt to centre right) on brackets carved as grotesques and gryphons, and cherubs bearing Coat of Arms of Swann family. Ovolo moulded bressumer. Coved eaves cornice to roof, stepped down to end right bay, and hipped with stacks to end rear left and to right. Hipped dormer to right return. Four glazing bar sashes and tripartite glazing bar sashes to left and to right on 1st floor, 3 glazing bar sashes, that to Centre with segmental frame, on ground floor, and mullion and transomed C19 canted bay to left, and tripartite sash to right in C16 canted bay (now flush with underbuilt wall surface). Half-glazed door to left, early C18 panelled doors to centre left in wooden Gibbs surround, to centre right in fluted surround with pedimented hood on gryphon brackets, to right with pediment on brackets, and at end right with mullioned rectangular fanlight, all with steps; simple rails to centre left. Right return with recently exposed 5 light mullioned and transomed 1st floor window, and 5 light Venetian-derivative on ground floor, with plank and stud door in fine moulded and stop-chamfered doorway. Rear, with catslide outshot and rear hipped wings. The main block, particularly to the east (No. 140 is a very narrow single room in depth, backed by immense stack. Interior: the plastered outer wall disguises several surviving mullioned windows. Finely moulded interior beams, much cut into by conversion C18 to 4 houses. The construction and decorative details of No. 140 suggest an earlier separate building here. "Tudor" bosses in ceiling to No. 138. Stone carved fireplaces especially No. 140 (similar to work in Wye College). The Swan family lived here C16-C18. The Coat of Arms on the jetty bracket and carved on the fire- place was granted 1533; the main body of the continuous-jettied building is unlikely to predate this. (See G.A. Worrall, Wye Local History Magazine, BOE Kent II, 507).

Listing NGR: TR0525746709

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 409844
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1976), 507
'Wye Local History Magazine' in Wye Local History Magazine, ()

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.