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Latitude: 52.1907 / 52°11'26"N
Longitude: -1.6995 / 1°41'58"W
OS Eastings: 420639
OS Northings: 254762
OS Grid: SP206547
Mapcode National: GBR 4LT.P4M
Mapcode Global: VHBY0.H6DF
Plus Code: 9C4W58R2+76
Entry Name: Swan's Nest Hotel
Listing Date: 25 October 1951
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1187760
English Heritage Legacy ID: 366144
ID on this website: 101187760
Location: Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37
County: Warwickshire
District: Stratford-on-Avon
Civil Parish: Stratford-upon-Avon
Built-Up Area: Stratford-upon-Avon
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire
Church of England Parish: Stratford on Avon Holy Trinity
Church of England Diocese: Coventry
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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2054 BANBURY ROAD, Bridgetown
604-1/6/292 (South West side)
25/10/51 Swan's Nest Hotel
GV II
Hotel. c1673 (probably incorporating part of older building);
additions 1897, 1906 and later. For Sir John Clopton. Brick
with limestone ashlar dressings; hipped tile roof with brick
stacks. Double-depth plan. Restoration style. 2 storeys;
symmetrical 6-window range. Rubble plinth, ashlar platt band
over ground floor, rusticated quoins and top cornice with
timber-modillioned eaves with central pedimental gablet.
Entrance has doorcase with pilasters and entablature to 4-pane
door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches with ashlar keys
over 16-pane sashes, but ground floor to left of entrance has
later windows inserted below old lintels: plaster wedge
lintels over paired 16-pane horned sashes flanking single
sash; central 1st-floor window has brick pilasters and
small-paned French window with C20 sign above, and C19 balcony
on scrolly wrought-iron brackets with similar panels to
balustrade. Later external lateral stack to right of entrance.
Right return 4-window range; small-paned cross-casement
windows, 6 to ground floor, cross-axial stack; C19 and C20
rear wings with conservatory to right of elliptical-headed
entrance with doorcase with open pediment. Left return has
stack and 2 single-storey wings with hipped roofs. The hotel,
originally The Bear, was one of the 1st brick buildings in
Stratford.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 416; VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of
Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-:
16).
Listing NGR: SP2063954762
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