The Swan Public House

The Swan Public House is a mid-19th century building on the west side of High Street. It is stuccoed with painted stone dressings and has a hipped tile roof and a rendered chimney. The building comprises two storeys and attics, and forms part of a wider group with numbers 29, 37, and 43.

Number 27, The Swan Public House, has a five-window front. The south range features three grouped double-hung sash windows on the first floor, with glazing bars, plain reveals, a continuous moulded sill band supported on four consoles, and a vermiculated keystone over each light. Below are three similar double-hung sashes with semi-circular heads, a plain band round the embrasures, and matching sill bands and keystones. Other ground and first-floor windows are single-light double-hung sashes with glazing bars, plain reveals, moulded sills on two consoles, and vermiculated keystones. The doorway has horizontal rustication, a cornice supported on extremely elaborate stucco consoles, deep plain reveals, panelled double doors, and an oblong fanlight with glazing bars. A moulded stringcourse runs above the ground floor.

Number 29 has a mid-19th century shop front on the ground floor, with plate glass windows, two doors (one six-panelled), and both with square plate glass fanlights. The corners of the shop front have eclectic capitals. The first floor has two double-hung sash windows without glazing bars, with vermiculated keystones and moulded sills supported on two consoles.

Shared attic dormers have gabled tile-hung fronts and double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The south facade of Number 27 features a six-panelled door with an oblong fanlight, plain reveals, vermiculated keystone, and two ranges of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, vermiculated keystones, and moulded sills on two consoles.

A single-storey extension to the west has a pitched roof with a gable at the west end, a planked double door, a plain door with an oblong fanlight, and two double-hung sash windows without glazing bars, plain keystones, and moulded sills on two consoles. The west end of the extension is constructed from beach flint, clunch, and random Pulborough stone, with red brick chaining and two stringcourses, and has a rounded corner to the south with no openings.