Swan Hotel
SWAN HOTEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225183
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Swan Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN HOTEL
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07854/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225183
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Swan Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAN HOTEL
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Colton
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 36941 86388
Details
COLTON NEWBY BRIDGE SD 38 NE 7/53 Swan Hotel 25.3.70 II
Hotel. Late C18 or early C19. Roughcast stone with slate roofs. 3 storeys with attic, 5 bays, with 2-storey wing of 5 bays to left and sympathetically designed C20 wing to right. 1st bay projects under pediment and has 1st floor sill band. Windows have paired sashes, most with glazing bars, but 5 have single glazing bars. 1st bay has large segmental-headed window to 1st and 2nd floors, with small-paned glazing. Gabled dormers have slate hung cheeks and sashed windows with glazing bars; 1st bay has 2 dormers to each return. Entrance between 3rd and 4th bays has C20 porch of plastic Doric columns, frieze and cornice, supporting model of swan. Entrance to left of window to 1st bay has flat canopy on curly brackets, similar canopy over entrance, now window to right of window. 5-bay wing projects to left. Irregularly placed windows are sashed with vertical glazing bars, some to ground-floor segmental headed. Projecting gable-end stack, sashed window with glazing bars to right return. Rear has sashed windows with glazing bars and later extensions. 3 cross-axial stacks and one gable-end stack. Originally a posting house, the hotel has group value with Newby Bridge (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD3694186388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421452
- 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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