The Swan Inn
THE SWAN INN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1173914
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Swan Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE SWAN INN, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1173914
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Swan Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SWAN INN, HIGH 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 INN, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Broxbourne (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37305 08821
Details
1. 5251 HODDESDON HIGH STREET (west side) Hoddesdon The Swan Inn TL 3708NW 6a/31 13.4.61
II* GV
2. Mainly C16 timberframed. 5-6 bays. Plastered ground floor, exposed half-timbered and plastered upper floor. Welsh and Westmoreland slate front roof, mostly old tile on rear. L-plan having 2-block rear wing on S, which is C16/17 on E and C19, single storey, weatherboarded on W. 6-window front elevation has central, canted window bay on 2 wooden Tuscan column with 6 4- light casements and long sign beam. Closely studded upper floor, some diagonal braces, S side jettied on moulded bressumer, N side on bull-nosed joists. 1st floor sash windows, late C19 multi-pane shop front on N. Interior mostly with chamfered and stopped floor beams and joists. 2nd bay from S with v-profile moulded beams. Visually the most striking timberframed inn in the district. (Pevsner (1977) ).
Listing NGR: TL3730508821
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157485
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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