Former part of Swan Inn

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TL 9762 5/142

WOOLPIT THE STREET Swan House

(Formerly listed as GREEN HILL The Swan Inn (part), previously listed as The Swan Hotel)

15.11.54

GV II

Part of inn at time of listing. C16 core with remodelling of 1759 as dated. Timber-framed, encased in C18 red brick with rusticated painted brick quoins. Plaintiled roof with two gabled casement dormers with leaded lights; the plaster gable of the right-hand dormer bears the faint date 1759. A large C18 axial chimney of red brick and an internal end chimney to left with parapet gable. Two storeys and attics. Three windows. Three C18 three-light casements at first storey with leaded lights. Small-pane c19 cashes at ground storey with cambered heads. A flat-roofed mid C20 splayed bay. To left is an C18/C19 four-panelled entrance door with small oblong fanlight. Another entrance has a C20 eight-panelled door with flat canopy. Above this entrance is a prominent plastered niche with rusticated quoins, designed to house a statue. One ground storey ceiling has a heavy structure of early C16 type. The roof appears to have been raised in C18.

Listing NGR: TL9739662371