The Swan Inn
THE SWAN INN, 36, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174077
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Swan Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE SWAN INN, 36, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174077
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Swan Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SWAN INN, 36, 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, 36, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Markyate
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0605816529
Details
TL 0616
8/169
MARKYATE
HIGH STREET
(West side)
No. 36 (The Swan Inn)
GV
II
Inn. Early C17 or earlier, rear SW wing later C17, brick front and N bay
extension early C18. Timber frame roughcast, front of grey brick in
Flemish-bond with wide vertical bands of red brick and stucco plinth.
Steep old red tile roofs but front slope to street slated. Plaster coved
eaves cornice to S face of rear wing. A 2-storeys, 2-cells, former
lobby-entry, central chimney plan house facing E with a 2-cells
2-storeys and cellar SW rear wing with floor levels higher than front
range and large internal chimney. Stair in rear wing but originally to
rear of chimney of front range. E front has 3 1st floor windows, a blind
recess over door between 1st and 2nd ground floor windows from S end.
Stucco plinth, plat band, brick modillioned and corbelled eaves band,
and projecting brick rectangular bay to N part with door and window.
Flush box sashes with 8/8 panes and segmental arches to ground floor
windows. Doorway infilled by white weatherboarding below a rectangular
fanlight. Entrance on S by panelled door beside internal chimney of rear
wing which also has a sash window with 6/6 panes. Timber frame exposed
in rear wall of front range. Interior has some exposed frame timbers,
cased axial beam in SE room, and chamfered axial beam with hollow stops
and NW corner post of frame in NE bar.
Listing NGR: TL0605816529
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157948
- 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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