Former part of Swan Inn
Swan House, The Street, Woolpit, IP30 9QN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032583
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Former part of Swan Inn
- Statutory Address:
- Swan House, The Street, Woolpit, IP30 9QN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032583
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former part of Swan Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- Swan House, The Street, Woolpit, IP30 9QN
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Swan House, The Street, Woolpit, IP30 9QN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolpit
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 97372 62397
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 July 2022 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 9762
5/142
WOOLPIT
THE STREET
Swan House
(Formerly listed as GREEN HILL The Swan Inn (part), previously listed as The Swan Hotel)
15.11.54
GV
II
Part of inn at time of listing. C16 core with remodelling of 1759 as dated. Timber-framed,
encased in C18 red brick with rusticated painted brick quoins. Plaintiled roof with two gabled casement dormers with leaded lights; the plaster gable of the right-hand dormer bears the faint date 1759. A large C18 axial chimney of red brick and an internal end chimney to left with parapet gable. Two storeys and attics. Three windows. Three C18 three-light casements at first storey with leaded lights. Small-pane c19 cashes at ground storey with cambered heads. A flat-roofed mid C20 splayed bay. To left is an C18/C19 four-panelled entrance door with small oblong fanlight. Another entrance has a C20 eight-panelled door with flat canopy. Above this entrance is a prominent plastered niche with rusticated quoins, designed to house a statue. One ground storey ceiling has a heavy structure of early C16 type. The roof appears to have been raised in C18.
Listing NGR: TL9739662371
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280895
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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