The Swan'S Nest

The Swan's Nest is a cottage that has been converted into a restaurant, built in 1830 for Lord Vernon of St Clair. The structure features coursed stone rubble with buff-coloured brick dressings and some decorative timber-framing with brick nogging. Originally thatched, the roof is now covered with clay plain tiles and has semi-circular and gabled ends, adorned with wavy bargeboards, pendants, and pierced ridge tiles topped with terracotta finials.

The building has brick axial stacks, one of which displays two round shafts made of polychrome red and yellow brick arranged in a spiral pattern. The cottage is designed in a cruciform plan, with a semi-circular verandah at the south end that extends along the west front. There is a later 19th-century extension at the rear northeast angle and a single-storey wing added in the 20th century on the east side.

The exterior consists of one storey and an attic. The south end features a semi-circular verandah supported by rustic timber posts with branch braces, topped with a semi-circular roof that includes a dormer with ornate bargeboards, pendants, and a casement window with diamond panes. Set back under the verandah, the semi-circular wall has casement windows and a French casement with glazing bars, along with a blocked 4-centred arch doorway on the west side, all framed in chamfered brick openings.

The verandah continues along the west side but is interrupted at the centre by a gabled wing that jetties on the first floor, supported by shaped brackets. This wing features sham framing with curved braces, herring-bone pattern brick nogging, and an oriel window on shaped brackets. Gabled dormers with ornate bargeboards and casements are positioned to the left and right over the verandah. The north gable end has a shallow oriel window on the first floor, while the rear gables also display wavy bargeboards, a flat roof addition in the northeast angle, and the single-storey 20th-century extension.

Inside, the south room on the ground floor features a Tudor arch chimneypiece.