Swan Hotel
SWAN HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384391
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Swan Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384391
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Swan Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAN HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
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:
- SWAN HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southwold
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 50838 76167
Details
SOUTHWOLD
TM5076 MARKET PLACE
588-1/7/78 (North side)
22/11/71 Swan Hotel
GV II
Hotel. Original building late C18, heightened in 1826, bay
windows added c1907; extensions to both sides mid C19; late
C19 extensions at rear; further extension at front 1938, by JA
Sherman. Gault brick; hipped, pyramidal or flat roofs of
slate; brick stack to 1938 extension: rear wing of painted
brick with pantile roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; original front of 3 windows, flanked by
1-bay extensions: further C20 extension to right has 4-window
front. Original building has half-glazed door and 8-vaned
overlight recessed in centre beneath wrought-iron balustrade.
On each side are full height square bay windows beneath
segmental pediments: windows are tripartite horned sashes with
4/4, 6/6, 4/4 glazing bars. First floor has French window
under painted gauged arch in centre: on second floor, one 6/6
horned sash in centre.
Extension to left has flat carriage arch on ground floor; on
first floor is canted bay window fitted with horned sashes
with 2/2, 6/6, 2/2 glazing bars; on second floor, one 6/6
horned sash.
Extension to right has canted right return. Ground floor has
9/9 horned sash windows under gauged skewback arches, two to
front, one to return. First and second floors each have one
6/6 horned sash under gauged skewback arches and with
wrought-iron balconies to front. Windows on return are 4/4
horned sashes, similarly treated. Deep bracketed eaves.
Further right, C20 extension has shallow canted bay window
with 3 9/9 horned sashes and flanked by similar sashes either
side. On upper floors, windows are arranged in two pairs, 9/9
horned sashes on first floor, on second floor 6/6 horned
sashes.
Rear: 2-storey C18 wing and late C19 3-storey additions.
INTERIOR: to right of entrance hall, pedimented door with
decorative carved detail: egg and dart frieze to entrance
hall. Late C19 cast-iron staircase balustrade with ramped
wooden handrail. Lift installed and rear staircase with swept
handrail inserted around shaft in 1938.
(Bottomley A & Hutchinson J: Discovering Southwold: Southwold:
1988-: 2; Jenkins AB: A Hundred Years of Southwold in
Photographs: Southwold: 1983-: 13).
Listing NGR: TM5083876167
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484825
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bottomley, A, Hutchinson, J, Discovering Southwold, (1988)
Jenkins, A B, A Hundred Years of Southwold in Photographs, (1983), 13
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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