SWAN HOUSE

SWAN HOUSE, CHURCH SQUARE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120901
Date first listed:: 23-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: SWAN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SWAN HOUSE, CHURCH SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120901
Date first listed:: 23-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: SWAN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SWAN HOUSE, CHURCH SQUARE

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:: SWAN HOUSE, CHURCH SQUARE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Awre
National Grid Reference:: SO 67276 07075

Details

SO 60 NE AWRE CHURCH SQUARE, (north side) BLAKENEY 3/118 Swan House 23.9.55

- II

Dwelling, formerly coaching house. C16 and later extensions or modifications. Timber framed close-set studding in back wing and in rebuilt gable to south- west, south-east-entrance-wing painted squared rubble, Welsh slate roofs. T-shaped plan, with C18 wing attached also at right angles to south-east front. Staircase in internal corner between north-east and north-west wings rises to gable. Stacks to south-west and north-west gables. Entrance front two storeys, 3-windowed, broad casements, and 12-light oak mullioned over central 6-panel door with transome light, in heavy but simple frame, and approached by 3 steps in semi-circle; C18 return wing, right. South-west elevation, to garden: wing, left, with rebuilt timber-framed gable; principal wing, right three storeys, 2-windowed, set wide on either side of internal stack, 1, 2 or 3-light casements with oak mullions all with simple stopped drips, rendered; bottom right opening, formerly 3-light, retaining drip, now small 2-light. Interior contains much heavy framing, and two-flight newel stair with octagonal newel.

Listing NGR: SO6727607075

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.