Swan With Two Nicks
SWAN WITH TWO NICKS, 28, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390019
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Swan With Two Nicks
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN WITH TWO NICKS, 28, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390019
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Swan With Two Nicks
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAN WITH TWO NICKS, 28, NEW 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:
- SWAN WITH TWO NICKS, 28, NEW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 85178 54925
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW NEW STREET
620-1/17/457 (East side)
08/03/74 No.28
Swan With Two Nicks
Formerly Listed as:
NEW STREET
(East side)
No.28
Dirty Duck)
GV II
House, now inn. Origins of late C16 with early/mid C18 facade and
later additions and alteration. Timber frame; painted brick
facade with ashlar copings and sills, concealed roof; cast-iron
rainwaterhead and fallpipe.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Ground and first
floors have 8/8 flush sashes, those to first floor with flat
arches of rubbed brick; second floor has 4/8 flush sashes and
flat arches of rubbed brick, all with sills. To first and second
floors the third opening is blind. Coped parapet. Off-centre
right entrance, a 6-reeded-flush-panel door in renewed surround
with pediment on brackets. Further opening at right a part-glazed
door. Rainwaterhead and fallpipe.
INTERIOR: ground floor altered but retains exposed chamfered
beams and purlins, passageway at left has rectangular framing.
First-floor has chamfered beams with ogee stops, exposed rafters;
exposed timber-framing, some renewed. HISTORICAL NOTE: thought to
be the oldest site of a building in New Street dating from C13,
this building thought to date from c1550. In 1581 it was leased
for 21 years to Edward Elcox, weaver from the Church of St Martin
at an annual rent of 26s 8d; by 1764 it was a tavern leased by
Charles Lea. In 1771 it was in two tenancies, one part known as
The Swan, tenanted by James Crump; in 1780 it was known as The
Little Swan and by 1830 it had become The Swan With Two Nicks,
tenanted by George Burrows; during the 1890s it was known as The
Swan With Two Necks. Ma Watkins was the last landlady to brew
beer here c1940s. New Street had changed its name from the
medieval Glover Street by 1523. Hughes: 'New street, in its C16
and C17 phase, was a street of dwelling-houses with workshops
behind ... of these The Old Pheasant (qv) and Nash House (qv) are
the most complete, while No.10 (qv) and The Swan with Two Necks
contain vestiges of an earlier structure.'
Nos 25-30 (consecutive) (qv) form a good group with the listed
buildings in Cornmarket (qv).
Information supplied by Linda Griffin, landlady of The Swan With
Two Nicks.
(Hughes P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester
1540-1650: PhD thesis: 1990-: 200).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488970
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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