The Old Swan Public House and Brewhouse at Rear

THE OLD SWAN PUBLIC HOUSE AND BREWHOUSE AT REAR, 85, 87 AND 89, HALESOWEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1246632
Date first listed:
02-Apr-2001
List Entry Name:
The Old Swan Public House and Brewhouse at Rear
Statutory Address:
THE OLD SWAN PUBLIC HOUSE AND BREWHOUSE AT REAR, 85, 87 AND 89, HALESOWEN ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1246632
Date first listed:
02-Apr-2001
List Entry Name:
The Old Swan Public House and Brewhouse at Rear
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD SWAN PUBLIC HOUSE AND BREWHOUSE AT REAR, 85, 87 AND 89, HALESOWEN ROAD

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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:
THE OLD SWAN PUBLIC HOUSE AND BREWHOUSE AT REAR, 85, 87 AND 89, HALESOWEN ROAD

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

District:
Dudley (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SO9446488049

Details

SO98NW
726/6/10034
02-APR-01

HALESOWEN ROAD
Netherton
85, 87 AND 89
The Old Swan public house and brewhouse at rear

II

Public house and brewhouse. 1863; altered late C20. Red polychrome brick. Welsh slate roof with gabled ends and brick dentil eaves. Brick axial and end stacks.
PLAN: L-shaped on plan. Public bar at front with passage on left to smoke-room in rear wing ; attached to rear wing the brewhouse. In the late C20 the adjacent shop on the left [NW] was incorporated into the public house and a snug was built in the angle at the back.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3-window SW front with bands of yellow and blue brick; central doorway with arched head with keyblock, fanlight and glazed and panelled door; canted bay windows to left and right with sashes with etched glass and margin glazing bars; on left passageway with panelled door and overlight; first floor windows with brackets to lintels and cills, sash windows with margin glazing bars, the centre tripartite sash was originally a bay window. 2-storey and attic, 2-bay circa 1860s brick building on left now incorporated into the public house, two Victorian shop windows with console brackets and sashes above with vertical glazing bars and bracketed pedimented lintels. Rear: sash windows with margin glazing bars; wing on right connected to brewhouse. Brewhouse is red brick 2-storey and loft range with blue brick dressings, 4 bays, cast-iron windows with small panes and cambered heads; smaller louvred windows on left; wide doorway to left of centre with plank door and loading door above; loading door on first floor to right with loft door above, corbelled out and breaking eaves with timber gable and hoist; louvre on ridge of roof.
INTERIOR complete with most of its original fittings. The bar counter has panelled front with console brackets. Bar back also complete, with traceried spandrels to mirrors and shelves and a moulded cornice above on console brackets. The windows have etched glass. Glazed partition to passage. Upholstered benches in public bar and smoke-room. Smoke-room has black slate chimneypiece. Public bar has patterned enamelled panels to ceiling, the larger centre panel depicting a swan. The brewhouse is complete with its brewing equipment.

Listing NGR: SO9446488049

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
487069
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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