Description

YORK

SE6051NE PEASHOLME GREEN
1112-1/17/863 (South East side)
14/06/54 No.23
The Black Swan Public House

GV II*

House, now public house. Late C16 with early and late C17
extensions; renovation and further extension in C20.
Timber-framed, front plastered and whitewashed, buff-orange
brick in random bond elsewhere; roofs of tile and pantile with
brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: twin-gabled front of 2 storeys and attic, with
jettied first floor and exposed timber-framing, largely
renewed; extension to right of 2 storeys and gabled attic, 2
windows; to left, C20 2-storey extension. Door to right of
centre has attached geometric panelling. Windows are single-
or multi-light leaded casements with renewed timber mullions
and transoms. Twin gables have vine-carved bargeboards and
pendants. Gable to right extension is blind. Rear: gabled
wings project behind later extensions. Right wing has altered
windows beneath moulded brick pediments, segmental on first
floor, triangular in attic, and broad moulded attic band. In
return to left, arcade of blind round arches to ground floor.
Left wing has triangular pediment over C20 2-light window on
first floor.
Left return: C20 extensions flank early C17 gabled wing of 2
storeys and attic with jettied upper floors. Wing has 5-light
casement window on ground floor and similar 2-light windows on
upper floors. To left, late C17 2-storey extension behind C20
addition has two first floor windows in rendered quoined
surrounds.
INTERIOR: ground floor: stone flagged entrance passage has
elliptical keyed arch to stairhall: three doorcases with
pilasters supporting moulded cornices, two with pulvinated
friezes and contemporary panelled doors, one with added
bolection moulded architrave to door of 6 fielded panels.
Front left room, lined with reset C17 panelling, has bolection
moulded fire surround beneath painted overmantel panel between
squat sunk-panel pilasters with moulded cornice: ceiling
coffered with intersecting beams with moulded soffits:
half-domed semicircular niche with shaped shelves on shaped
brackets. Open-well staircase with panelled risers, moulded
close string, bulbous balusters, heavy moulded handrail and
square newels with ball and pedestals finials and pierced
pendants: 2-panel door beneath stairs. Rear left room has
chamfered beams and huge fireplace beneath chamfered timber
bressumer. First floor front room lined with full-height
panelling in moulded surrounds, painted in trompe l'oeil
rectangular and oval raised panels containing figures, and
incorporating door on H-L hinges. Pulvinated frieze painted

with laurel leaves. Fireplace lined with reset blue and white
tiles beneath moulded cornice shelf and shaped panel
overmantel enclosed in moulded frame and painted with
allegorical figures in pastoral scene: both parts flanked by
sunk-panel pilasters. Ceiling coffered by heavy beams with
moulded soffits. Panel paintings almost indecipherable.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 179).

Listing NGR: SE6074551949

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Black Swan Public House at Wikipedia
• The Black Swan Public House official website
• Wikidata Q17549586

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