OLD SWAN HOUSE

OLD SWAN HOUSE, SWAN BARTON

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1355982
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: OLD SWAN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: OLD SWAN HOUSE, SWAN BARTON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1355982
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: OLD SWAN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD SWAN HOUSE, SWAN BARTON

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD SWAN HOUSE, SWAN BARTON

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sherston
National Grid Reference:: ST 85277 85869

Details

SHERSTON SWAN BARTON ST 8485-8585 (south side) 8/143 Old Swan House (formerly listed as Nos 19 & 21 12.12.51 High Street) GV II*

Section of former Swan Inn, now house. Late C16 restored in the C20. Coursed rubble rendered with stone dressings and gabled stone slate roof with east end brick stack. Rear section of L-shaped plan with Nos 19 and 21 High Street (q.v.). North front of 2 storeys, 5 bays with cavetto-moulded mullioned fenestration: one 5-light cross-mullion with small leaded pane casements and hoodmould to ground floor centre, the remainder 2, 3 and 4-light windows with hoodmoulds and similar casements. Two doorways with flat hoods on carved brackets: plank doors. Further mullioned fenestration to west end wall. Interior. Late C16 stone fireplace in ground floor room to right with double chamfer; orginal collar beam roof structure with massive trusses. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: ST8527785869

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Legacy System number:: 318140
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.