Swan House
SWAN HOUSE, 36, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236937
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Swan House
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN HOUSE, 36, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236937
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Swan House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAN HOUSE, 36, MAIN 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 HOUSE, 36, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lyddington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 87482 97236
Details
LYDDINGTON MAIN STREET SP 8697-8797 (east side) 8/112 10.11.55 No 36 (Swan House). GV II House, part used as chapel late C19-early C20. Dated LPS 1674 on tablet, heavily restored c.1970. Coursed ironstone rubble with Ketton stone dressings to N and W wings, ironstone dressings to NE wing, and C20 concrete dressings to much of S wing. Collyweston slate roof, stone gable copings with ogee half-pendants to kneelers, ashlar chimneys with moulded neckings and cornices. Original building is of irregular T-plan with main wings to W and S and short N wing with entry and staircase; to NE is another C17 wing, altered C19, and to SE a wing of uncertain date, much rebuilt C20. 2 storeys and attic. Chamfered plinth, moulded string courses, ovolo-moulded mullion windows with moulded cornices. Projecting W wing has blind gable end to road with fire insurance plaque and cornice over date plaque, 3 2-light windows in left return, and one bay of 4-light windows in right return. Right return also has small blocked fireplace window to left, and hipped dormer. 3-bay S wing retains one original 4-light window to first floor left but other 3 and 4-light matching windows were made in concrete c.1970 to replace sashes and former chapel openings. Hipped dormer to left. N wing has ashlar front with moulded window over C20 door in original shouldered architrave surround. 3-light windows in N gable. NE wing, to rear, has Welsh slate roof, irregular C17 ironstone windows with ovolo-moulded mullions, and door in C17 4-centred arch. C20 door in C20 moulded doorcase to centre rear. Interior: 3 4-centred chamfered arches with cornices to rooms and passage at N end of house; good C17 staircase with turned wooden balusters and tall moulded newel finials; large fireplace in W wing, with moulded wooden lintel and re-sited inset stone fireplace with 4-centred arch and cornice.
Listing NGR: SP8748297236
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428055
- 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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