Swan Hotel

The Swan Hotel is a former coaching inn, now functioning as a hotel. It dates from the mid to late 18th century, with extensive additions made in the early 19th century and a significant enlargement around 1930. The building is constructed from coursed and dressed limestone, featuring ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof, with Welsh slate on the former stable wing.

The hotel has a two-storey T-plan block at the rear of a long two-storey front range, with a stable wing to the south and a two-storey section with an attic enlargement to the north. The front façade has a four-window arrangement in the early 19th-century right part, all with 16-pane sash windows that have sunblind valencing, except for the central canted bay window which has 12-pane sashes. There is a doorway to the right. The roof features three ridge-mounted chimneys with moulded caps.

To the left, there is a 20th-century block with five-window 16-pane sash fenestration, flanked on the upper floor by two keyed oval windows. The doorway has moulded architraves, glazed doors, and a bold shell hood positioned below the right oval window. The roof includes five hipped attic dormers with small-paned casements, and the gable ends have parapets, with the north end extended by a lower gable.

At the south end, there is mixed mullioned fenestration from the earlier building behind the front range. The long two-storey former stables and coach house have been incorporated into the hotel, featuring a canted bay window in the former coach doorway and timber casement windows. A row of iron ridge vents is present.

The interior has been mostly altered in the 19th century. The inn has been recorded as operating since 1672 and is said to have been used for manor courts, with the village lock-up located immediately to the north of the inn. The hotel occupies an important view-closing position along the eastward passage through the village. Early photographs of the inn, taken before the 1930 addition, are held in the National Monuments Record and displayed in the bar area.