Swan Hotel

SOUTHWOLD

TM5076 MARKET PLACE 588-1/7/78 (North side) 22/11/71 Swan Hotel

GV II

Hotel. Original building late C18, heightened in 1826, bay windows added c1907; extensions to both sides mid C19; late C19 extensions at rear; further extension at front 1938, by JA Sherman. Gault brick; hipped, pyramidal or flat roofs of slate; brick stack to 1938 extension: rear wing of painted brick with pantile roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; original front of 3 windows, flanked by 1-bay extensions: further C20 extension to right has 4-window front. Original building has half-glazed door and 8-vaned overlight recessed in centre beneath wrought-iron balustrade. On each side are full height square bay windows beneath segmental pediments: windows are tripartite horned sashes with 4/4, 6/6, 4/4 glazing bars. First floor has French window under painted gauged arch in centre: on second floor, one 6/6 horned sash in centre. Extension to left has flat carriage arch on ground floor; on first floor is canted bay window fitted with horned sashes with 2/2, 6/6, 2/2 glazing bars; on second floor, one 6/6 horned sash. Extension to right has canted right return. Ground floor has 9/9 horned sash windows under gauged skewback arches, two to front, one to return. First and second floors each have one 6/6 horned sash under gauged skewback arches and with wrought-iron balconies to front. Windows on return are 4/4 horned sashes, similarly treated. Deep bracketed eaves. Further right, C20 extension has shallow canted bay window with 3 9/9 horned sashes and flanked by similar sashes either side. On upper floors, windows are arranged in two pairs, 9/9 horned sashes on first floor, on second floor 6/6 horned sashes. Rear: 2-storey C18 wing and late C19 3-storey additions. INTERIOR: to right of entrance hall, pedimented door with decorative carved detail: egg and dart frieze to entrance hall. Late C19 cast-iron staircase balustrade with ramped wooden handrail. Lift installed and rear staircase with swept handrail inserted around shaft in 1938. (Bottomley A & Hutchinson J: Discovering Southwold: Southwold: 1988-: 2; Jenkins AB: A Hundred Years of Southwold in Photographs: Southwold: 1983-: 13).

Listing NGR: TM5083876167