Description

HENLEY-IN-ARDEN

SP1566 HIGH STREET
652-1/10/48 (West side)
06/02/52 No.100
The White Swan Hotel

GV II*

House, now house and public house. Late C16 with early C17
refronting and C19 alterations and additions. Brick with
limestone ashlar dressings, and timber-frame with brick or
plastered infill; gabled tile roof with C19 brick end stack
and cross-axial stack. 3-unit plan plus cross-wing to right
end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; 4-window range. 2 units to
left of brick with ashlar quoins, timber-framed jettied gable
to left end; wing has jettied first floor and gable. Entrance
to left end has recessed-chamfered ashlar architrave with
renewed lintel and label to C20 plank door; throughway to
right of centre has paired panelled gates.
Two 2-storey canted bay windows to left of centre have ashlar
quoins and timber top cornices, each floor with
1:1:3:1:1-light recessed-chamfered mullioned windows with C19
or C20 leaded glazing; wing has ashlar-dressed brick base to
similar canted bay window, but with wood mullions and narrower
window to first floor bacause of jetty; first floor has window
with renewed 3-light transomed casement over throughway. Gable
to left end has a 3-light leaded metal casement, and similar
window to gable of cross-wing. 2 hipped roof dormers have
2-light leaded casements.
Right half has close-studded ground floor and square framing
to first floor, right wing with decorative framing to first
floor and gable head. Similar framing to left gable head.
Enriched wrought-iron sign bracket.
Rear has varied gabled wings, some timber-framing to
cross-wing, with 3-panel door and brick addition.
INTERIOR: some exposed beams, but much alteration.
(Victoria County History: Styles P: Victoria History of the
County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 207).

Listing NGR: SP1506266043

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551921

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