Swan's Nest Hotel
SWAN'S NEST HOTEL, BANBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187760
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Swan's Nest Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN'S NEST HOTEL, BANBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187760
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Swan's Nest Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAN'S NEST HOTEL, BANBURY ROAD
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:
- SWAN'S NEST HOTEL, BANBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 20639 54762
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2054 BANBURY ROAD, Bridgetown 604-1/6/292 (South West side) 25/10/51 Swan's Nest Hotel
GV II
Hotel. c1673 (probably incorporating part of older building); additions 1897, 1906 and later. For Sir John Clopton. Brick with limestone ashlar dressings; hipped tile roof with brick stacks. Double-depth plan. Restoration style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 6-window range. Rubble plinth, ashlar platt band over ground floor, rusticated quoins and top cornice with timber-modillioned eaves with central pedimental gablet. Entrance has doorcase with pilasters and entablature to 4-pane door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches with ashlar keys over 16-pane sashes, but ground floor to left of entrance has later windows inserted below old lintels: plaster wedge lintels over paired 16-pane horned sashes flanking single sash; central 1st-floor window has brick pilasters and small-paned French window with C20 sign above, and C19 balcony on scrolly wrought-iron brackets with similar panels to balustrade. Later external lateral stack to right of entrance. Right return 4-window range; small-paned cross-casement windows, 6 to ground floor, cross-axial stack; C19 and C20 rear wings with conservatory to right of elliptical-headed entrance with doorcase with open pediment. Left return has stack and 2 single-storey wings with hipped roofs. The hotel, originally The Bear, was one of the 1st brick buildings in Stratford. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 416; VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 16).
Listing NGR: SP2063954762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366144
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Borough of Stratford Upon Avon and the Parish of Alveston, (1946), 16
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 416
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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