The Black Swan Inn And Maws Stores

SE 6886-6986 6/58 1/7/55

KIRKBYMOORSIDE MARKET PLACE (west side) Nos 11 and 13 (The Black Swan Inn) and 15 (Maws Stores) (formerly listed as Black Swan Hotel)

GV II

Inn, now inn and shop. Dated on porch lintel: 'ANO DOM 1632 OCTOBER XI WILLIAM WOOD'; extended in C18; subdivided late C19. Timber frame clad in coursed Limestone, now whitewashed; brick and sandstone extensions; pantile roof; brick stacks. Originally 2-cell, through-passage plan, with rear wing to left; later extensions to left and right and to rear right. 2 storey with central, projecting, gabled, porch, and 4 first floor windows. Raised quoins to right. Porch has 4 carved posts supporting a first floor room with a continuous band of round-headed windows under plain bargeboards Present entrance to inn to centre of left part. C19/C20 openings to ground floor. To right of porch is the double-fronted shop window. Fenestration to first floor is irregular, with a 5-light horizontal sliding sash under an original timber lintel to left of porch, and 4-pane sashes to right. Coped gables, and one end right and one centre stacks. Interior: timber framing to the rear and sides of the original 2-cell building survives within later stone walls. Original 5-bay, king-post roof framing also survives. In the inn bar to the right is a complete fireplace with heck, bressumer and spice cupboard. R Hayes and J Rutter, (Cruck-framed Buildings in Ryedale and Eskdale, p 64.

Listing NGR: SE6967486522