Description

SE43NW
2/11
23.12.83

ABERFORD LS25
MAIN STREET
(west side)
The Swan Hotel

GV
II

Coaching inn, now public house and hotel. Probably mid to late C18; altered
internally. Limestone, with white-painted stucco facade, stone slate roof.
L-shaped plan. Two storeys and cellar,4 bays with receding wing and extension
to rear of 4th bay. Entrance by segmental-headed coach archway through ground
floor of 3rd bay, the passage having in its right-hand side a blocked doorway
with a coach bell above. Each side of the archway is a 2-storey canted bay
with 12-pane sashed windows and sillbands on both floors, and the right-hand
bay, which is wider, has a round-headed 1/2-sunk cellar door in its right-hand
side; at 1st floor above the archway is a long moulded name plate "SWAN HOTEL"
and a 4-pane sash. To the left of the left bay is a doorway up 5 steps, and a
16-pane sashed window on each floor. Chimneys at left end, on ridge, and
on wing ridge. Right return wall has an added single-storey porch, various
sashed windows. Rear: single-storey extension to 2nd bay, long extension
to receding wing of 4th bay, 2 builds, roughcast. Ridge chimneys; roof hipped
and swept at right-hand end. Interior altered.

Listing NGR: SE4332337213

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428987

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)