The Swan Hotel

The Swan Hotel was built between 1794 and 1796 for Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, to designs by Henry Holland, and extended between 1906 and 1908 by Thomas Thurlow. It is constructed of Totternhoe clunch ashlar with a Welsh slate roof. The building is rectangular, facing west onto High Street, with extensions extending east.

The Swan Hotel is a three-and-a-half storey, gable-fronted building on the west side, facing High Street. The pitched roof is covered with Welsh slate. The walls are of ashlar Totternhoe clunch, featuring a modillion cornice over the second floor, a continuous sill course to the first floor, and a continuous platband over the ground floor. The west front has a pediment to the gable, containing a lunette panel and a Diocletian attic window. The ground, first, and second floors each have three bays. The second floor has flat-arched three-over-three timber sash windows. The first-floor window surrounds are segmental-arched, and the ground-floor windows are flat-arched, all containing tripartite timber sash windows with mullions (stone to the ground floor and timber to the first floor). A tetrastyle Ionic porch with a balustraded parapet centers the west front, framing a segmental-arched door surround with an intricate traceried fanlight, sidelights, and 20th-century half-glazed doors. The south front, facing the Embankment, has five bays of flat-arched sash windows; two bays on the first floor have segmental wooden oriels overlooking the river, with the remaining bays blind. The rear (east) gable is of coursed rubble stone and has three bays similar to the front elevation. A three-and-a-half storey, four-bay extension was added to the rear between 1906 and 1908, featuring a pediment over the central two bays, a modillion cornice, flat-arched timber sash windows, and a modillion pediment to its east gable.

The interior includes a late-17th-century staircase, believed to have been relocated from Houghton House in 1794.