Swan's Nest Hotel

Swan's Nest Hotel is a hotel located on Banbury Road in Bridgetown, Stratford-upon-Avon. It dates back to around 1673, likely incorporating parts of an older building, with later additions made in 1897, 1906, and beyond. The hotel was built for Sir John Clopton and features a brick structure with limestone ashlar dressings and a hipped tile roof with brick stacks.

The building has a double-depth plan and is two storeys high with a symmetrical six-window range. It has a rubble plinth, an ashlar platt band above the ground floor, rusticated quoins, and a top cornice with timber-modillioned eaves and a central pedimental gablet. The entrance features a doorcase with pilasters and an entablature leading to a four-pane door. The windows have rubbed brick flat arches with ashlar keys above 16-pane sashes, although the ground floor to the left of the entrance has later windows inserted below old lintels, with plaster wedge lintels over paired 16-pane horned sashes flanking a single sash.

The central first-floor window is flanked by brick pilasters and features a small-paned French window with a 20th-century sign above, along with a 19th-century balcony supported by scrolly wrought-iron brackets and similar panels in the balustrade. There is a later external lateral stack to the right of the entrance. The right return has a four-window range with small-paned cross-casement windows, six on the ground floor, and a cross-axial stack. There are 19th and 20th-century rear wings, including a conservatory to the right of an elliptical-headed entrance with a doorcase featuring an open pediment. The left return has a stack and two single-storey wings with hipped roofs. Originally known as The Bear, this hotel was one of the first brick buildings in Stratford.