Swan And Talbot

SE4048 WETHERBY NORTH STREET LS22 (east side)

5/22 No 34 (Swan and Talbot) 30.3.66 (formerly listed as Swan and Talbot Hotel)

GV II

Public house. Early C18, possibly with earlier core but much altered and extended. Stucco and cement render; tiled eaves courses to pantile roof, Welsh slate roofs to rear wings. 2 storeys, 5 bays with wing to rear left, shorter wing in rear angle and C20 flat-roofed additions to rear right and right return (not of special interest). Corniced pilaster to far left. Stone doorcase between bays 1 and 2 with panelled double-door in Tuscan- columned aedicule having triglyphs, vermiculated frieze and pediment with vermiculated tympanum. All ground-floor bays have renewed sashes with glazing bars in stone architraves with projecting sills. 1st floor has unequally-hung 9-pane sashes in matching surrounds. Boxed eaves to swept roof. Rear: wing on right has external end stack. Historically important as one of the principal coaching inns of the town. After the 1723 Fire of Wetherby, William Parker is recorded as having insured 'The moveable goods of the inn' for £500 (Unwin, p.61). R. Unwin, Wetherby, 1986

Listing NGR: SE4047148325