The Old Swan Public House And Brewhouse At Rear

The Old Swan public house and brewhouse dates to 1863, with later alterations in the late 20th century. Constructed of polychrome red brick with a Welsh slate roof, gabled ends, brick dentil eaves, and brick axial and end stacks.

The building is laid out in an L-shape. The front has a public bar with a passageway on the left leading to a smoke-room in the rear wing, which is attached to the brewhouse. A late 20th-century incorporation of an adjacent shop on the north-west side added a snug in the rear angle.

The symmetrical three-window south-west front features bands of yellow and blue brick. A central doorway has an arched head with a keyblock, fanlight, and a glazed and panelled door. There are canted bay windows to the left and right, with sash windows featuring etched glass and margin glazing bars. A passageway is situated on the left, with a panelled door and overlight. The first-floor windows are bracketed at the lintels and cills, also sash windows with margin glazing bars. The central tripartite sash was originally a bay window. A circa-1860s, two-storey and attic, two-bay brick building now incorporated into the public house has Victorian shop windows with console brackets. Above the shops are sashes with vertical glazing bars and bracketed, pedimented lintels. The rear features sash windows with margin glazing bars, with a wing on the right connected to the brewhouse. The brewhouse is a two-storey and loft range, using red brick with blue brick dressings, extending four bays. It has cast-iron windows with small panes and cambered heads, smaller louvred windows to the left, and a wide doorway to the left of centre with a plank door and a loading door above. There is a loading door on the first floor to the right, corbelled out, breaking the eaves with a timber gable and hoist, topped with a ridge louvre.

The interior retains most original fittings. The bar counter has a panelled front with console brackets. The bar back is complete with traceried spandrels to the mirrors and shelves, a moulded cornice above on console brackets, and etched glass in the windows. There is a glazed partition to the passage. Features include upholstered benches in the public bar and smoke-room, the latter with a black slate chimneypiece. The public bar features patterned enamelled panels in the ceiling, the larger central panel depicting a swan. The brewhouse remains complete with its brewing equipment.