Swan Hotel

The Swan Hotel is a building of late 18th-century origins, with significant alterations and extensions throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. It was heightened in 1826, with bay windows added around 1907, and substantial extensions to both sides in the mid-19th century. Further extensions occurred in the late 19th century, and a front extension was added in 1938, designed by J.A. Sherman. The hotel is constructed primarily of gault brick, with hipped, pyramidal, or flat slate roofs, and a brick stack to the 1938 extension. A rear wing is of painted brick with a pantile roof.

The main front of the hotel is three storeys high, originally featuring three windows, flanked by one-bay extensions. A further 20th-century extension to the right presents a four-window front. The original section has a half-glazed door with an 8-vaned overlight, recessed within a wrought-iron balustrade. Full-height square bay windows, topped with segmental pediments, are on either side, featuring tripartite horned sash windows with 4/4, 6/6, and 4/4 glazing bars. The first floor has a French window beneath a painted gauged arch in the centre, and the second floor a 6/6 horned sash.

An extension to the left includes a flat carriage arch on the ground floor and a canted bay window on the first floor with horned sashes and 2/2, 6/6, and 2/2 glazing bars. A 6/6 horned sash is on the second floor. The extension to the right has a canted right return. The ground floor features 9/9 horned sash windows with gauged skewback arches, two to the front and one to the return. The first and second floors each have a single 6/6 horned sash under gauged skewback arches, with wrought-iron balconies to the front. Windows on the return are 4/4 horned sashes, similarly treated. There is a deep bracketed eaves detail. The 20th-century extension has a shallow canted bay window with three 9/9 horned sashes, flanked by similar sashes. Upper floors feature windows arranged in pairs, with 9/9 horned sashes on the first floor and 6/6 horned sashes on the second.

The rear includes an original two-storey 18th-century wing and late 19th-century three-storey additions.

Inside, to the right of the entrance hall is a pedimented door with decorative carved detail, and an egg and dart frieze to the entrance hall. A late 19th-century cast-iron staircase balustrade with a ramped wooden handrail is present. A lift was installed, and a rear staircase with a swept handrail inserted around its shaft in 1938.