Swan Hotel
SWAN HOTEL, A433
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088416
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Swan Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN HOTEL, A433
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- Date:
- 2001-08-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/04082/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088416
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Swan Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAN HOTEL, A433
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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 HOTEL, A433
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bibury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 11489 06914
Details
BIBURY A433 SP 1006-1106 (east side) 11/4 Swan Hotel 23.1.52 GV II Former coaching inn, now hotel. Mid-late C18; extensive early C19 additions; c1930 enlargement. Coursed and dressed limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof, Welsh slate to former stable wing. Two-storey T-plan block to rear of long 2-storey front range; stable wing to south; 2-storey with attic enlargement to north. Front: 4-window fenestration to early C19 right part of frontage, all 16-pane sashes with sunblind valencing except 12-pane sashes to central canted bay window; doorway to right. Three ridge-mounted chimneys with moulded caps. C20 block to left has 5- window 16-pane sash fenestration, flanked on upper floor by 2 keyed oval windows. Doorway with moulded architraves, glazed doors and bold shell hood below right oval window. Five hipped roofed attic dormers with small-paned casements. Parapet gable ends, part extended with lower gable at north end. South end: mixed mullioned fenestration to earlier building behind front range. Long 2-storey former stables and coach house now incorporated into hotel, with canted bay window in former coach doorway; timber casement fenestration. Row of iron ridge vents. Interior: mostly altered in C19. Recorded as an inn from 1672. Said to have been used for manor courts - the village lock up (q.v.) being immediately to north of inn. Important view-closing position upon eastward passage through village. (Early photographs of inn before c1930 addition in NMR and displayed in bar area; A.R.J. Jurica, 'Bibury' in V.C.H. Glos. vii, 1981, pp 21-44)
Listing NGR: SP1148906914
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 127250
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1981), 21-44
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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