White Swan Hotel
WHITE SWAN HOTEL, ROTHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298498
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- White Swan Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE SWAN HOTEL, ROTHER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298498
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- White Swan Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE SWAN HOTEL, ROTHER 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:
- WHITE SWAN HOTEL, ROTHER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 19960 55066
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP1955SE ROTHER STREET 604-1/7/190 (North side) 25/10/51 White Swan Hotel
GV II
Hotel. Mid C15 and later; completely remodelled and large back wing added in 1927. Timber-frame with plaster infill and brick; tile roof with brick return lateral and cross-axial stacks. Half-H plan, with single-storey infill. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Paired gables with flanking gabled wings. Brick ground floor with tile gabled coping to centre, timber-framed wings flank paired stuccoed gables. Entrance has segmental head and plank door. Windows have wooden mullions and leaded glazing: 2-light window to left and 4-light window to right of entrance, 5-light window to left end and 1:4:1-light canted bay window to right end. 1st floor has 3-light windows, and 4-light window to right end. Right return has some exposed timber-framing and original external lateral stack with offset shaft; attached gateway with tile pointed arch and iron gates. INTERIOR: chamfered beams and exposed timber-framing; some original doorways with pointed or segmental heads. Wing to right has former jetty beam with mortises for 4+4-light window with diagonal mullions; late C16 panelling and chamfered stone Tudor-headed fireplace with overmantel with marquetry to 3 round-headed panels; part of an important series of late C16 mural paintings of scenes from the book of Tobit with foliage panels. Known as the King's House in 1560, owned by Robert Perrott, innkeeper, d.1589; it has been an inn for most of its history. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 420; VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 13).
Listing NGR: SP1996055066
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366371
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Borough of Stratford Upon Avon and the Parish of Alveston, (1946), 13
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 420
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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