Swan House
SWAN HOUSE, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215399
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swan House
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN HOUSE, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215399
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swan House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAN HOUSE, THE SQUARE
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 HOUSE, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Molton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 73688 29849
Details
NORTH MOLTON THE SQUARE (south side) SS 7229-7329 18/199 Swan House - GV II House, latterly public house. Probably early to mid C19, possibly the remodelling of a C18 house. Rendered, probably over stone rubble. Gable-ended scantle-slate roof. Rendered brick stacks with weatherings. Plan: Two-room central-entrance plan, with staircase to rear of entrance hall and pair of external lateral stacks to rear. Outshut at right-hand end. Two storeys, with one-storey outshut. Exterior: Nearly symmetrical 3-bay front; C19 small-paned 2-light wooden casements. Central C19 four-panelled door (upper panels glazed and lower panels beaded flush) with rectangular overlight, chamfered wooden frame and C19 bracketed gabled wooden porch with shaped panelled barge boards. One-storey lean-to outshut to right-hand gable end with shaped verge boards. Gable ends of main range also with shaped barge boards. Interior: Four-panelled doors with moulded architraves. Early C19 staircase with rectangular-section stick balusters, closed string and turned newel post. Old winder stair to cellar, with C18 four-panelled door at top. Cellar below left-hand room with cobbled floor and former barrel-drop to front.
Listing NGR: SS7368229847
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400601
- 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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