The Swan

The Swan is a former public house dating from the first half of the 15th century, with later alterations. It features a timber frame and mid-20th century panelled plasterwork adorned with ropework pargetting. The roof is tiled with plain tiles at the front and pantiles at the rear. The building is 1½ storeys high and follows a 3-cell layout that includes a former open hall. There are three 19th-century casement windows, each with hoodmoulds, and a lobby entrance with a four-panel door, where the upper two panels are glazed. The structure has three gabled dormers and an internal stack, with the lower part rendered over. A lean-to addition is present on the left gable end, along with a later altered wing at the rear. Inside, there is an original blocked cross-entry doorway featuring a two-centred arch, and a similar doorway in the service partition may not be in its original position. The open truss displays an arched-braced cambered tie beam, which has been cut through; this once supported a crown-post roof that is no longer present. Part of one diamond-mullioned hall window can still be seen. The inserted floor has plain joists, and there is a 16th-century stack with a newel stair located against the upper end of the hall. The parlour cell is likely from the 16th century, featuring a chamfered-joist ceiling with barred stop-chamfers on the bridging beam and plain first-floor studding.