319 High Street

Former public house, constructed during the early C19.

MATERIALS: the building is of painted and exposed red brick with a timber shopfront and a roof covering of slate.

PLAN: square on plan, the building’s principal elevation faces north.

EXTERIOR: the principal range is of three storeys across two bays onto the High Street, under a pitched roof sloping towards the primary, west façade. The ground floor contains a late-C20 timber shopfront in an early-C20 style. The first and second floors are of painted white brickwork. Each floor contains a pair of historic sash windows under painted, flat-arched heads, those on the first floor are six-over-six sashes and those on the second floor are three-over-three sashes. Between the two sets of windows is a moulded panel bearing the raised lettering: BLACK SWAN. At the roof junction is a late C20 or C21 timber soffit supported on stucco or stone corbels arranged in three pairs. There are four square-headed pattress plates in line with the first-floor window heads. The southern gable wall, visible from the High Street, is of white painted render. A passageway in the ground floor of the adjacent property (320 High Street) leads to a rear range running east from the principal, western range of number 319. This rear range steps down in stages from three storeys to one storey. The two westernmost elements, of three storeys and two storeys are of the mid- to late C19 and of matching design, constructed in red brick with timber sash windows and pitched, slate roofs. The easternmost range is a single-storey, flat-roofed element, probably of the mid- to late C20.

Listing NGR: SK9750171025