The Swan Inn

TL 0616 8/169

MARKYATE HIGH STREET (West side) No. 36 (The Swan Inn)

GV II

Inn. Early C17 or earlier, rear SW wing later C17, brick front and N bay extension early C18. Timber frame roughcast, front of grey brick in Flemish-bond with wide vertical bands of red brick and stucco plinth. Steep old red tile roofs but front slope to street slated. Plaster coved eaves cornice to S face of rear wing. A 2-storeys, 2-cells, former lobby-entry, central chimney plan house facing E with a 2-cells 2-storeys and cellar SW rear wing with floor levels higher than front range and large internal chimney. Stair in rear wing but originally to rear of chimney of front range. E front has 3 1st floor windows, a blind recess over door between 1st and 2nd ground floor windows from S end. Stucco plinth, plat band, brick modillioned and corbelled eaves band, and projecting brick rectangular bay to N part with door and window. Flush box sashes with 8/8 panes and segmental arches to ground floor windows. Doorway infilled by white weatherboarding below a rectangular fanlight. Entrance on S by panelled door beside internal chimney of rear wing which also has a sash window with 6/6 panes. Timber frame exposed in rear wall of front range. Interior has some exposed frame timbers, cased axial beam in SE room, and chamfered axial beam with hollow stops and NW corner post of frame in NE bar.

Listing NGR: TL0605816529