Swan Inn

The Swan Inn is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered building that has undergone alterations in the 18th century and later. It has two storeys and features a four-window range with 18th-century casements, which are three lights with transoms. At the west end, there is a paired window consisting of six lights, where only the center lights are hinged and have iron frames. The ground floor displays a late 19th-century bar front with three windows and two doorways, one double and one single, both topped with rectangular fanlights and connected by a moulded wood cornice, likely from an earlier period. The windows have framed risers with brick nogging above an earlier stepped brick plinth. A recessed doorway is located at the west end, alongside a wide double-hung sash window featuring vertical glazing bars, a moulded frame, and panelled shutters. The west gable reveals the ends of some purlins and wall braces. The roof is tiled and adorned with 19th-century ornamental crest tiles and a wooden eaves cornice. The Swan Inn and the Corn Exchange are part of a group with Nos 1 and 2 Arcade Street and the National Westminster Bank on Princes Street.