The Swan's Nest
THE SWAN'S NEST, PLAYER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245336
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Swan's Nest
- Statutory Address:
- THE SWAN'S NEST, PLAYER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245336
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Swan's Nest
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SWAN'S NEST, PLAYER STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE SWAN'S NEST, ST JOHNS ROAD
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:
- THE SWAN'S NEST, PLAYER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE SWAN'S NEST, ST JOHNS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ryde
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ5935292145
Details
SZ 59 SE
632/7/10004
RYDE
PLAYER STREET (South Side) The Swan's Nest
II
Includes: The Swan's Nest, ST JOHN'S ROAD
Cottage, now restaurant. Built 1830 for Lord Vernon of St Clair. Coursed stone rubble with buff-coloured brick dressings and some sham timber-framing with brick nogging. Clay plain tile roof [originally thatched] with semi-circular and gabled ends with wavey bargeboards and pendants and pierced ridge tiles with terracotta finials. Brick axial stacks, one with two round shafts of polychrome red and yellow brick in spiral pattern. PLAN: Cottage Orne in cruciform plan with semi-circular verandah at south end continuing along west front. Later C19 extension in rear [NE] angle and C20 single-storey wing on east side. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. The south end is semi-circular with verandah with rustic timber posts with branch braces supporting a semi-circular roof with a dormer with ornate bargeboards, pendants and casement with diamond panes; deeply set back under the verandah the semi-circular wall has casements and French casement with glazing bars and a blocked 4-centred arch doorway on west side, all in chamfered brick openings. The verandah is continued on the west side, but is interrupted at the centre by a gabled wing, jettied on the first floor on shaped brackets, with sham framing with curved braces and herring-bone pattern brick nogging and an oriel on shaped brackets; to left and right over the verandah are gabled dormers with ornate bargeboards and casements. The north gable end has shallow oriel on first floor. Gables at rear with wavey bargeboards, flat roof addition in NE angle and single-storey C20 extension. INTERIOR: south room on ground floor has Tudor arch chimneypiece.
Listing NGR: SZ5935292145
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468731
- 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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