Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
7349
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/10/1951
Date of Amendment
01/02/1988
Name of Property
Swan Hotel, including Courtyard Buildings to rear
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Hay
Town
Locality
Easting
322702
Northing
242162
Street Side
Location
At the junction of Church Street and Swan Bank; set in the slope. Formerly the Black Swan Inn.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built ca. 1812 (certainly after 1808 view showing earlier building).
Exterior
Symmetrical late Georgian 2-storey, 7 bay squared rubble front with plinth. Central 3-bays advanced and gabled with pediment treatment given by band course. Hipped slate roof, wide eaves and rubble chimney stacks. Mainly 16-pane sash windows with vermiculated lintels, keystones and louvred shutters. Tripartite small pane sash windows flank central entrance with broad bracket hood, fluted pilasters, panelled reveals and double doors with deep traceried fanlight. Similar sash windows to left end 1st floor, fixed glazed windows below. Small pane sash window to right end over panelled double doors.
Set back to right rear is a 2-window front to Swan Bank; mainly 16-pane sash windows with voussoir lintels, one blocked and one 2-pane window with timber lintel. Polygonal W end at yard entrance with boarded door facing across stable courtyard. Rubble rear with 2 pebbledash lean-to extensions, some sash windows, and outside staircase.
U-plan range of buildings to rear around part cobbled courtyard, entered from N and adjoining rear of hotel to S. Rubble ranges, proprietary slate and concrete tile roofs; boarded doors. 4-bay barn to S with simple king-post trusses and whitewashed rubble interior. Stables at W end with small pane casement windows. Further stable range to W and N with 2-storey living accommodation at E end of the latter; wide eaves and rubble chimney stack heightened in brick; small pane sash windows with voussoir lintels, also to board and panelled doors. N range has a polygonal end to balance that of the hotel cross range and a 2-window elevation to Swan Bank.
Interior
The main hotel staircase rises to the 1st floor in a single flight; other Regency details including fireplaces, doorcases, ceiling roses etc ...... Disused at time of inspection (May 1987).
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items in Church Street.
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