Swan Hotel

BIBURY A433 SP 1006-1106 (east side) 11/4 Swan Hotel 23.1.52 GV II Former coaching inn, now hotel. Mid-late C18; extensive early C19 additions; c1930 enlargement. Coursed and dressed limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof, Welsh slate to former stable wing. Two-storey T-plan block to rear of long 2-storey front range; stable wing to south; 2-storey with attic enlargement to north. Front: 4-window fenestration to early C19 right part of frontage, all 16-pane sashes with sunblind valencing except 12-pane sashes to central canted bay window; doorway to right. Three ridge-mounted chimneys with moulded caps. C20 block to left has 5- window 16-pane sash fenestration, flanked on upper floor by 2 keyed oval windows. Doorway with moulded architraves, glazed doors and bold shell hood below right oval window. Five hipped roofed attic dormers with small-paned casements. Parapet gable ends, part extended with lower gable at north end. South end: mixed mullioned fenestration to earlier building behind front range. Long 2-storey former stables and coach house now incorporated into hotel, with canted bay window in former coach doorway; timber casement fenestration. Row of iron ridge vents. Interior: mostly altered in C19. Recorded as an inn from 1672. Said to have been used for manor courts - the village lock up (q.v.) being immediately to north of inn. Important view-closing position upon eastward passage through village. (Early photographs of inn before c1930 addition in NMR and displayed in bar area; A.R.J. Jurica, 'Bibury' in V.C.H. Glos. vii, 1981, pp 21-44)

Listing NGR: SP1148906914