Swan Inn

SWAN INN, 3, SOUTH BAR STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1200446
Date first listed:
09-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:
Swan Inn
Statutory Address:
SWAN INN, 3, SOUTH BAR STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1200446
Date first listed:
09-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:
Swan Inn
Statutory Address 1:
SWAN INN, 3, SOUTH BAR 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SWAN INN, 3, SOUTH BAR STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:
Banbury
National Grid Reference:
SP4533140335

Details

BANBURY SOUTH BAR STREET
SP4540SW (East side)
9/176 No.3 (Swan Inn)
09/04/52
GV II

Public house. C17, with later alterations including replacement of mullioned
window with casements. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. Steeply pitched Welsh
slate roof, brick end stack to left on rendered stone base, brick lateral stack,
stone coping to right. 3-unit plan. Single-storey plus attic; 3-window range.
Central entrance has renewed wood surround and original chamfered lintel. C20
door. Entrance is flanked by gabled, 2-storey canted bay windows. Bay window to
right retains part of stone mullions, rest inserted casements. Fragmentary
remains of hood mould. Bay window to left has casements and fragmentary remains
of hood mould. Casement windows to attic floor, some with wrought-iron casement
fasteners. 3-light wood-mullioned window between the bays. Blocked dormer
windows in gables. Interior: chamfered beams on ground floor.
(V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X. p.30).


Listing NGR: SP4533140335

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
244476
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 30

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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