The Swan Hotel
THE SWAN HOTEL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135613
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Swan Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE SWAN HOTEL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135613
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Swan Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SWAN HOTEL, MAIN STREET
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 HOTEL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Aberford
- National Grid Reference:
- SE4332337213
Details
SE43NW
2/11
23.12.83
ABERFORD LS25
MAIN STREET
(west side)
The Swan Hotel
GV
II
Coaching inn, now public house and hotel. Probably mid to late C18; altered
internally. Limestone, with white-painted stucco facade, stone slate roof.
L-shaped plan. Two storeys and cellar,4 bays with receding wing and extension
to rear of 4th bay. Entrance by segmental-headed coach archway through ground
floor of 3rd bay, the passage having in its right-hand side a blocked doorway
with a coach bell above. Each side of the archway is a 2-storey canted bay
with 12-pane sashed windows and sillbands on both floors, and the right-hand
bay, which is wider, has a round-headed 1/2-sunk cellar door in its right-hand
side; at 1st floor above the archway is a long moulded name plate "SWAN HOTEL"
and a 4-pane sash. To the left of the left bay is a doorway up 5 steps, and a
16-pane sashed window on each floor. Chimneys at left end, on ridge, and
on wing ridge. Right return wall has an added single-storey porch, various
sashed windows. Rear: single-storey extension to 2nd bay, long extension
to receding wing of 4th bay, 2 builds, roughcast. Ridge chimneys; roof hipped
and swept at right-hand end. Interior altered.
Listing NGR: SE4332337213
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342228
- 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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