THE SWAN HOTEL

THE SWAN HOTEL, 2 AND 4, CHURCHGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387974
Date first listed:: 23-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: THE SWAN HOTEL
Statutory Address:: THE SWAN HOTEL, 2 AND 4, CHURCHGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387974
Date first listed:: 23-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: THE SWAN HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: THE SWAN HOTEL, 2 AND 4, CHURCHGATE
Statutory Address 2:: THE SWAN HOTEL, BRADSHAWGATE

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

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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:: THE SWAN HOTEL, 2 AND 4, CHURCHGATE
Statutory Address:: THE SWAN HOTEL, BRADSHAWGATE

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

District:: Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD7185509300

Details

BOLTON

SD7109SE 797-1/17/73 23/04/52

CHURCHGATE (South side) Nos. 2 AND 4 The Swan Hotel

GV II

Includes: The Swan Hotel BRADSHAWGATE. Hotel. Built in 4 principal phases between c1800 and c1900, and possibly incorporating an earlier building. What is probably the earliest phase stands as an independent building facing Churchgate, with the later phases forming distinct buildings to either side of it. Painted brick with slate roof. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: 3 storeys, 3-window range with central entrance in Tuscan portico porch, flanked by full-height shallow bow windows, with shafts dividing the tripartite sash windows (all 2-pane). Renewed window over doorway (probably enlarged to give access to balcony formed by roof of porch), and 2-pane sash window above. Renewed cornice. Axial stack to left of entrance. A further early C19 building faces Bradshawgate; 3 storey, 6-window range with entrance to left, and segmental archway to inner courtyard to right of centre. Doorway in moulded architrave to left, and architraves to 15 and 12 pane sash window above it. 2-window range to right, with 2-pane sashes to ground and first floor, and 9-pane sashes in attic storey. Palladian window over carriage entry to right, and tripartite sash window in second storey. Inserted public house frontage to ground floor beyond the archway, and 2 2-pane sash windows on upper floors. Windows all have flat arched painted brick heads and stone sills. End and front wall stacks; overhanging eaves. The Churchgate and Bradshawgate buildings are linked by a corner block of c1850: also 3 storeys, 5-window range with curved corner. Entrance in this corner, in architrave with segmental canopy carried on brackets (probably c1900); 4-pane sash windows above (the first-floor window obscured by inn sign); continuous sill band to second floor. 2-pane sash windows to Bradshawgate and Churchgate returns, with inserted public house frontage to ground floor. Moulded overhanging eaves cornice. A further building was added to the complex c1900, and adjoins the Churchgate building to the left: painted brick. 3 storeys, 2-window range with 2-storey canted bay windows divided by pilasters and with elaborate pedimented over to first floor. Paired 2-pane sashes in upper storey; pedimented gable with scroll work etc. in low relief, incorporating swan at apex. Various further late C19 and C20 extensions to rear. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD7185509300

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Legacy System number:: 475970
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.