Swan House Inn And Attached Outbuilding

TL 4245 18/123 26.7.84

FOWLMERE HIGH STREET (North Side) Swan House Inn and attached outbuilding (formerly listed as two items)

GV II

Inn now a restaurant. c.1700 or later, with later alterations. Timber-framed and roughcast rendered. Plain tiled roof with slated rear lean-to. Red brick stack to west gable, and large rectangular planned stack detached from gable and with an exposed ground floor hearth to the east formerly part of a building to the east. Two storeys with attics and cellars. Symmetrical facade; central doorway with stone step, C18 raised and fielded panelled door with moulded wooden architrave, rectangular fanlight and flat canopy on shaped brackets. Four ground floor flush-framed hung sash windows with margin glazing bars; three first floor twelve-paned hung sash windows, and three hipped casement dormer windows. Interior: Staircase in original position opposite main entrance. C20 single storey extension to west links the house to a small barn, partly weatherboarded with plain tiled and thatched roof. The Swan was rebuilt in the C18 on the site of the earlier Swan Inn, burnt in 1634 village fire. V.C.H. Vol. VI, p.156

Listing NGR: TL4207145851