Swan Hotel
SWAN HOTEL, GREENGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195355
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Swan Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN HOTEL, GREENGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195355
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Swan Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAN HOTEL, GREENGATE 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:
- SWAN HOTEL, GREENGATE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 92204 23172
Details
STAFFORD
SJ9223SW GREENGATE STREET 590-1/10/52 (West side) 16/01/51 Swan Hotel
GV II*
Formerly known as: No.45 Swan Hotel GREENGATE STREET. Hotel. Mid to late C18 with earlier origins, possibly mid C17. Stucco; slate mansard roof with large brick stack. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic; 6-window range. Top modillioned cornice and parapet. Segmental-headed entrance to right of centre is former coach entrance, now with paired panelled doors. Ground floor has 3 wide bow windows, each with four 4-pane sashes and friezes and cornices, that to left end is of 2 storeys; other windows have sills and 4-pane sashes; 5 flat-roofed dormers with small-paned casements. Stack has cogged frieze and cap. Rear has 2 gabled wings, one with former stable block; courtyard partly enclosed in C20. INTERIOR: some panelling, probably C17, and late C19 open well staircase; stable block converted to bar and retaining some features; courtyard retains windows including bow window. HISTORY: the hotel was a noted coaching inn; George Borrow worked here and described it in his book: Romany Rye; Charles Dickens stayed here and described it and the town in an article in Household Words. (Raven M: Staffordshire and the Black Country: 1988-: 292; Victoria County History of Staffordshire: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford: London: 1979-: 191, 201; County Planning Department: Charles FWB: Swan Hotel, Greengate Street, Stafford: 1966-).
Listing NGR: SJ9218923172
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383996
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raven, M, Staffordshire and the Black Country, (1988), 292
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1979), 191,201
Charles, F W B, Swan Hotel, (1966)
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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