The Swan and Attached Buildings
THE SWAN AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038914
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Swan and Attached Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- THE SWAN AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038914
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Swan and Attached Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SWAN AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS
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:
- THE SWAN AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fradley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 14032 14030
Details
SK 11 SW ALREWAS C.P. FRADLEY JUNCTION
3/11 The Swan and attached - buildings GV II
Inn, cottages and former warehouse. Circa 1770's. Red brick; slate roof; brick ridge stack and integral end stacks. Aligned north-east/ south-west. facing south-east. 2 storeys; slightly irregular fenestration but essentially 4:3:4 bays, casements with segmental heads, central pedimented break, former warehouse to the left, inn and attached cottage to the right. Central break has 3 segmental-headed arches at ground-floor level leading to a central door, and a central first-floor door; the former warehouse has a large double door to the left, and a door to the right, both with segmental heads and a first floor door to the left; the inn has a bay window to ground floor left, with hipped roof, and a central door with pedimented porch, the attached cottage has a half-glazed door. Mid-to-late C19 cottage attached to the south-west (left) end facing south-west; 2 storeys; 3 windows, segmental headed casements; central door. The Swan and its attached buildings are the most prominent of an interesting group of structures at the junction of the Trent and Mersey and Coventry canals. The Trent and Mersey canal was completed in 1777; the surveyor-general was James Brindley. Jean Lindsay, The Trent and Mersey Canal (1979).
Listing NGR: SK1403214030
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 272497
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lindsay, J, The Trent and Mersey Canal, (1979)
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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