SWAN HOTEL AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS

SWAN HOTEL AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, 11, SADLER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383085
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: SWAN HOTEL AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: SWAN HOTEL AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, 11, SADLER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383085
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-May-2000
List Entry Name:: SWAN HOTEL AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: SWAN HOTEL AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, 11, SADLER STREET

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:: SWAN HOTEL AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, 11, SADLER STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wells
National Grid Reference:: ST 54948 45801

Details

WELLS

ST5445 SADLER STREET 662-1/7/222 (West side) 12/11/53 No.11 Swan Hotel and attached outbuildings (Formerly Listed as: SADLER STREET (West side) No.9(Houston Gallery) and No.11(Swan Hotel))

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Hotel. C16 or earlier, substantially restructured and refronted late C18 or early C19, rear wing rebuilt 1885. Roughcast, with rendered plinth, brick stacks and rear wing, slate roofs. PLAN: the original plan had a through carriageway at the centre, now enclosed, to a stable yard, and wing to the right; the carriageway now enclosed, with a new wide entry to the left of the main range, under a 2-bay extension. There are some earlier buildings to the rear,left, connected at the upper level with the main range. The principal staircase lies to the left of the entrance hall, behind the main front lounge. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2+3 bays, the two bays to left over throughway with flat-arched full width opening with shallow signboard over, the first-floor windows of 12-pane sashes in plain openings, with small curved balcony fronts in delicate early C19 cast-iron; the second floor has 9-pane sash windows. The main 3-bay section has composite 3-unit sash windows without glazing bars, those to ground and first floors relatively deep, first-floor bays 1 and 3 have small cast-iron balconies, and second-floor windows have a plain rendered architrave. To the centre bay at ground floor is a pair of half-glazed doors in plain painted stone architrave, above which is a large square balcony, mostly in cast-iron, with a wide planked deck on 4 cast-iron brackets. The words "Swan Hotel" in large wooden letters are secured on battens between first and second floors, and between the two left-hand bays at first floor level is a carved wooden swan on an ornamented cast-iron bracket. Above the second-floor windows is a plain stone band, below the blocking course with moulded stone parapet; the main roof has coped verges, with a stack to each gable. The rear wing is dated 1885, with an upper floor in cavity-wall brickwork panels between timber posts oversailing the ground floor in a jetty, on heavy square beams, and with sash windows. INTERIOR: the ground-floor room to the left has an abbreviated 9-compartment ceiling with C16 moulded beams; the wide C16 stone fireplace was brought in from a building in Frome in the late C20. To the right the bar has three early C16 moulded beams, with exposed early close-set heavy floor joists carrying wide floor-boards running in the same direction, and a late C19 stone fireplace, the latter imported c1970, as was the fine linen-fold panelling (from Devon) in the long dining room to its rear. The through entrance hall has a coved ceiling of c1970, and to the left is the wide late C18 dog-leg hardwood staircase with solid strings and turned-on-square balusters, to Doric newels. Details in the upper floors are generally C19 or C20; one bedroom (23) retains 2 deep chamfered beams of the C16 or C17. The first-floor front room runs the full width of 3 bays of the principal range, but retains no detail of historic interest. There are extensive cellars; the front section left has a very heavy chamfered and stopped beam, and to the right, extending under the rear wing, stone flat segmental vaults, with cobble or stone flag floors. Roofs not accessible for inspection, but likely to be late rebuildings. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the attached outbuildings to the rear, left, include remains of a rubble and tile C17 cottage.

Listing NGR: ST5492445797

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Legacy System number:: 483503
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.