Swan'S Nest Hotel

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054 BANBURY ROAD, Bridgetown 604-1/6/292 (South West side) 25/10/51 Swan's Nest Hotel

GV II

Hotel. c1673 (probably incorporating part of older building); additions 1897, 1906 and later. For Sir John Clopton. Brick with limestone ashlar dressings; hipped tile roof with brick stacks. Double-depth plan. Restoration style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 6-window range. Rubble plinth, ashlar platt band over ground floor, rusticated quoins and top cornice with timber-modillioned eaves with central pedimental gablet. Entrance has doorcase with pilasters and entablature to 4-pane door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches with ashlar keys over 16-pane sashes, but ground floor to left of entrance has later windows inserted below old lintels: plaster wedge lintels over paired 16-pane horned sashes flanking single sash; central 1st-floor window has brick pilasters and small-paned French window with C20 sign above, and C19 balcony on scrolly wrought-iron brackets with similar panels to balustrade. Later external lateral stack to right of entrance. Right return 4-window range; small-paned cross-casement windows, 6 to ground floor, cross-axial stack; C19 and C20 rear wings with conservatory to right of elliptical-headed entrance with doorcase with open pediment. Left return has stack and 2 single-storey wings with hipped roofs. The hotel, originally The Bear, was one of the 1st brick buildings in Stratford. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 416; VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 16).

Listing NGR: SP2063954762