Black Swan
BLACK SWAN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167501
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Black Swan
- Statutory Address:
- BLACK SWAN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167501
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Black Swan
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACK SWAN
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:
- BLACK SWAN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Much Dewchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 48243 31228
Details
MUCH DEWCHURCH CP - SO 43 SE 6/85 Black Swan 20.10.52 GV II Public house. Possibly C16 or C17, with later alterations. Sandstone rubble finished in paint. Welsh slate roof and sandstone rubble stack with brick shafts. Rectangular plan aligned east/west. Two storeys. South elevation has three windows, 2-light late C19 casements to first floor. Contemporary casements to ground floor, the centre one of two lights, the outer pair of three lights. Stepped sandstone external front side stack with brick shaft to centre to right of which is early C20 gabled canopy and 6-panelled mid-C19 entrance door. Attached to right is a low one-bay range linking to C19 granary set at right angles. Interior has heavy chamfered ceiling beams forming panels in west ground floor room. Timber-framed cross-wall and doorway with 4-centred head. (RCHM, Vol I, p 52).
Listing NGR: SO4824331225
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 155385
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 52
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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