Swan And Mitre Public House

The Swan and Mitre Public House is a public house built in 1898-1899 by James and Lister Lea for the Holt Brewery Company. It is constructed of red brick and terracotta, likely sourced from the Hathern Station Brick and Terracotta Company of Loughborough. The building features a slate roof with gabled ends and has brick axial and gable end stacks.

This two-storey structure is located on a corner site, with entrances to the bars at the corner and front, and additional entrances to the smoke room at the back along with stairs. It is designed in the Dutch Renaissance style. The Lichfield Road elevation has a 2:1:2 bay arrangement, while the right-hand return to Holborn Hill also features a 2:1:2 bay layout, with a canted corner that supports an oriel topped with a wooden cupola and an ogee dome with a tall spike finial. The two-window bays project forward and are adorned with shaped gables.

The ornate terracotta ground floor includes large, moulded, elliptically arched windows with keystones, rooks, shafts, and balustered wooden mullions. The narrower doorways are similarly detailed but feature round arches, with roundels above the doors and spandrels above the window arches, all topped with an entablature that continues around the corner oriel. The soffit of the oriel is decorated with terracotta foliage. The first-floor windows have paved sills and ornate terracotta pediments with swagged console brackets, and the windows are fitted with leaded panes, some of which include stained glass. The entrance doors are panelled and have semi-circular fanlights. The right-hand two bays of the Holborn Hill elevation form a plain red brick rear wing.

Inside, the bars are fitted with Jacobean style wooden bar backs and fronts, featuring fluted pilasters, arched mirrors, and clocks above. The smoke room contains an imported wooden chimneypiece with bulbous colonettes flanking the overmantel mirror. The passage and stairs are lined with tiled walls, and the staircase is equipped with turned newels and balusters.

The building was formerly known as The Swanpool Tavern.