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Swan House Inn and Attached Outbuilding

A Grade II Listed Building in Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0928 / 52°5'33"N

Longitude: 0.0724 / 0°4'20"E

OS Eastings: 542071

OS Northings: 245851

OS Grid: TL420458

Mapcode National: GBR L8L.M5D

Mapcode Global: VHHKN.6NNK

Plus Code: 9F4233VC+4X

Entry Name: Swan House Inn and Attached Outbuilding

Listing Date: 26 July 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1330942

English Heritage Legacy ID: 52936

ID on this website: 101330942

Location: Fowlmere, South Cambridgeshire, SG8

County: Cambridgeshire

District: South Cambridgeshire

Civil Parish: Fowlmere

Built-Up Area: Fowlmere

Traditional County: Cambridgeshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Fowlmere St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Ely

Tagged with: Inn Thatched pub

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Description


TL 4245
18/123
26.7.84

FOWLMERE
HIGH STREET
(North Side)
Swan House Inn and attached outbuilding
(formerly listed as two items)

GV
II

Inn now a restaurant. c.1700 or later, with later alterations.
Timber-framed and roughcast rendered. Plain tiled roof with slated rear
lean-to. Red brick stack to west gable, and large rectangular planned stack
detached from gable and with an exposed ground floor hearth to the east
formerly part of a building to the east. Two storeys with attics and
cellars. Symmetrical facade; central doorway with stone step, C18 raised
and fielded panelled door with moulded wooden architrave, rectangular
fanlight and flat canopy on shaped brackets. Four ground floor flush-framed
hung sash windows with margin glazing bars; three first floor twelve-paned
hung sash windows, and three hipped casement dormer windows. Interior:
Staircase in original position opposite main entrance. C20 single storey
extension to west links the house to a small barn, partly weatherboarded with
plain tiled and thatched roof. The Swan was rebuilt in the C18 on the site
of the earlier Swan Inn, burnt in 1634 village fire.
V.C.H. Vol. VI, p.156

Listing NGR: TL4207145851

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