THE BLACK SWAN INN AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND EAST

THE BLACK SWAN INN AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND EAST, 159, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1152692
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:: THE BLACK SWAN INN AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND EAST
Statutory Address:: THE BLACK SWAN INN AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND EAST, 159, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1152692
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:: THE BLACK SWAN INN AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND EAST
Statutory Address 1:: THE BLACK SWAN INN AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND EAST, 159, HIGH STREET

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:: THE BLACK SWAN INN AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND EAST, 159, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Swanage
National Grid Reference:: SZ 02665 78668

Details

HIGH STREET 1. 5190 (south side) No 159 (The Black Swan Inn) SZ 0278 NE 5/95 and boundary walls to North East and East II GV

2. Of origin, altered in C18 and later. Purbeck Stone walls, colourwashed, Purbeck Stone roof. Brick stacks. Two storeys and attics. Ground floor has entrance door with flat stone canopy on brackets, and 3 double-hung sash windows. Similar windows to first floor. Two dormers to attic, one with a pent roof, one with a hipped roof, both with double-hung sashes. Wrought iron hanging sign under eaves. West of the existing entrance are signs of an earlier blocked door, and another further west. The building is raised above pavement level on a terrace with a Purbeck Stone retaining wall and simple iron railings. Two-storeyed gabled extension at rear, also in Purbeck Stone. Stone outbuildings at rear - attached to main building. Purbeck Stone walls and roofs. Single-storey. Probably originally stables, etc. Purbeck Stone boundary wall along High Street and Townsend Road. Stone gate piers to entrance leading to yard in Townsend Road. RCHM Monument 43.

Listing NGR: SZ0266578668

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Legacy System number:: 108221
Legacy System:: LBS

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Inventory of Dorset, (1970)

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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.