The Old Swan

The Old Swan is a house, later used as a public house (which closed in 1966), with a core dating back to the 15th century. It was extended to the right in the 17th century in two phases. The roof was re-roofed in the 19th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with a lined appearance designed to resemble ashlar. It has a shallow-pitched pantiled roof and consists of three main sections. The upper floor has three 18th-century square windows with leaded casements. The ground floor features two original four-light casement windows and a mid-20th-century window on the left side. Mid-20th-century louvred shutters are also present. The cross-entry doorway has an eared architrave and a six-panel raised and fielded door. The stack has a plain brick shaft.

A 19th-century single-storey addition is attached to the left gable end, constructed of whitewashed brick and glazed black pantiles, with one inset sash window with glazing bars. Behind this is a single-storey wing clad in weatherboarding and covered with pantiles, part of which includes a cellar.

The interior of the 15th-century core includes a former open hall and its associated service area. The hall retains some exposed studding and a sooted front wallplate approximately 1.5 metres below the current eaves; the rear main post has a blocked mortise for a brace to a former open truss. A service partition retains a doorway with a four-centre arched head. In the service area, there is evidence of original windows and substantial curved braces, partly concealed, along with two sizes of plain floor joists. Some heavy square joists are also visible. An inserted floor has a chamfered main beam, the joists of which are plastered over. A timber chimney may be found within the hall chamber, as indicated by the studding set against the stack.

The 17th-century parlour cell has regular studding and an extension to an earlier floor beam created using a scarf joint. An intact open fireplace is located on the ground floor.