Swan Hotel

The Swan Hotel is a hotel that dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone with slate roofs and features three storeys with an attic. The main building has five bays, with a two-storey wing of five bays on the left and a sympathetically designed 20th-century wing on the right. The first bay projects under a pediment and has a first-floor sill band. The windows are mostly paired sashes, many with glazing bars, although five have single glazing bars. The first bay features a large segmental-headed window on the first and second floors, with small-paned glazing. Gabled dormers have slate-hung cheeks and sashed windows with glazing bars, and the first bay has two dormers on each return. The entrance, located between the third and fourth bays, has a 20th-century porch with plastic Doric columns, a frieze, and a cornice, supporting a model of a swan. To the left of the first bay's window, there is a flat canopy on curly brackets, similar to the canopy over the entrance, which is now a window to the right of the first bay's window. The projecting five-bay wing to the left has irregularly placed sashed windows with vertical glazing bars, some of which are segmental-headed on the ground floor. There is a projecting gable-end stack and a sashed window with glazing bars on the right return. The rear of the building has sashed windows with glazing bars and later extensions, along with three cross-axial stacks and one gable-end stack. Originally a posting house, the hotel has group value with Newby Bridge.