THE SWAN PUBLIC HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1122342
Date first listed:: 16-May-1984
List Entry Name:: THE SWAN PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE SWAN PUBLIC HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1122342
Date first listed:: 16-May-1984
List Entry Name:: THE SWAN PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE SWAN PUBLIC HOUSE

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

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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:: THE SWAN PUBLIC HOUSE

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County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Birdbrook
National Grid Reference:: TL 72386 42869

Details

TL 74 SW BIRDBROOK BAYTHORNE END 3/13 The Swan Public House

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Lobby-entrance house, C17, altered in C20, now a public house. Timber framed, plastered, front elevation of C20 yellow brick in Flemish Bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned approx. NW-SE, aspect NE, with original axial chimney stack in second bay from SE end forming a lobby-entrance. Long rear extension from SE end, with external chimney stack and bread oven at end, and single-storey extension beyond. Shorter rear extension from NW end, with axial chimney stack, and single-storey lean-to extension at end. Lean-to extension to rear of main range. C20 toilet block to W. 2 storeys. Half- glazed door at front of C20 gabled porch, half-glazed door under bracketed hood, 3 double-hung sash windows of 16 lights. First floor, 3 double-hung sash windows of 12 lights. Rusticated brick quoins, dentils below eaves, 2 sections of facade set slightly forward. Interior has plain-chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops above ground and first floors. Face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates. Main chimney stack rebuilt at ground floor level. S stack complete, mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops, door of bread oven missing. A deed in the possession of the brewers, of which the licensee has a copy and transcript, records the sale of the property in 1707 by John Pyke alias Crouch, gent, to William Pye and Rosa his wife for £50. An inscription in the W wall of the parish church refers to 'Martha Blewit of the Swan Inn at Bathorn-End in this Parish, buried May 7th 1681'.

Listing NGR: TL7238642869

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Legacy System number:: 114077
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.