The Swan Public House

The Swan Public House is a lobby-entrance house dating back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is now a public house. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a front elevation constructed in the 20th century using yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The roof is covered with handmade red clay tiles. The house comprises four bays aligned approximately northwest-southeast, facing northeast. An original axial chimney stack is located in the second bay from the southeast end, forming a lobby-entrance. A long rear extension extends from the southeast end, featuring an external chimney stack and bread oven at the end, with a single-storey extension beyond. A shorter rear extension is present from the northwest end, with a chimney stack and a single-storey lean-to extension at the end. A lean-to extension also adjoins the rear of the main range. A 20th-century toilet block is located to the west. The building has two storeys. The front features a half-glazed door within a 20th-century gabled porch, a half-glazed door under a bracketed hood, and three double-hung sash windows with 16 lights each. The first floor has three double-hung sash windows with 12 lights each. Rusticated brick quoins and dentils below the eaves are visible, with two sections of the front facade projecting slightly forward. The interior displays plain-chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops above both the ground and first floors. Wallplates feature face-halved and bladed scarfs. The main chimney stack has been rebuilt at ground floor level; the stack is complete, and a mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops remains. The door to the bread oven is missing. A deed, held by the brewers and copied by the licensee, documents the sale of the property in 1707 by John Pyke alias Crouch to William Pye and Rosa his wife for £50. An inscription on the west wall of the parish church refers to 'Martha Blewit of the Swan Inn at Bathorn-End', who was buried on May 7th 1681.