Old Swan House

This is a timber-framed building, originally a house and now a row of cottages, with a core dating back to the 15th century. It has undergone alterations and extensions through the 16th to 18th centuries. The construction incorporates red brick on a base, along with flint and rubble, with some exposed timber framing and plaster infill, and areas covered with weatherboarding. A tile-hung rear range is present. The roof is tiled, with a hipped design.

The original layout was of a hall house, later divided in the 18th century into four cottages. The building is two storeys high and stands on a plinth. A continuous jetty, extended to the centre right, is supported by brackets carved as grotesque figures, gryphons, and cherubs bearing the coat of arms of the Swann family. The jetty has an ovolo-moulded bressumer and a coved eaves cornice to the roof, which steps down to the end right bay and is hipped. There's a hipped dormer on the right return. The windows are a mix of glazing bar sashes and tripartite glazing bar sashes on the first floor, with three glazing bar sashes on the ground floor. A mullion and transomed canted bay from the 19th century is located on the left, while a tripartite sash is within a 16th-century canted bay (now flush with the underbuilt wall). A half-glazed door is to the left, with early 18th-century panelled doors to the centre left (within a wooden Gibbs surround), the centre right (in a fluted surround with a pedimented hood supported by gryphon brackets), the right (with a pediment on brackets), and at the end right (with a mullioned rectangular fanlight). All doors have steps. Simple railings are at the centre left. A recently exposed mullioned and transomed window of five lights is visible on the first floor of the right return, alongside a Venetian-derivative window of five lights on the ground floor, and a plank and stud door within a fine, stop-chamfered doorway.

The rear features a catslide outshot and rear hipped wings. The main block, especially to the east, is noteworthy; No. 140 has a very narrow single room depth, backed by an immense stack. The interior plaster on the outer wall conceals several surviving mullioned windows and finely moulded interior beams, which have been cut into due to the 18th-century conversion into four houses. No. 140 suggests it may have originally been a separate building. "Tudor" bosses are in the ceiling of No. 138. Stone carved fireplaces are present, particularly in No. 140, which display similarities to work found in Wye College. The Swan family resided here from the 16th to 18th centuries. The coat of arms, granted in 1533, appears on the jetty brackets and carved into the fireplace. Construction of the main continuous-jettied section is unlikely to predate this date.