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
7439
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
16/09/1991  
Date of Amendment
16/09/1991  
Name of Property
Swan Hotel  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Builth  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
304059  
Northing
250914  
Street Side
 
Location
Later C19 public house on street line of Market Street, facing down High Street and closing view from High Street.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
Slate roof with brick chimney. Snecked local stone, with painted freestone dressings. Two storeys plus attics, five window elevation. Double pitched Mansard roof with attic windows covered by extended slope of upper pitch; windows grouped 1+1+2, and have segmental heads under straight bracketed hoods. At first floor level, five windows below cornice with moulded stone brackets. Windows all horned sashes with large panes and have painted stone lintels with scalloped decoration and moulded painted stone sills. On ground floor, entrance doorway set asymmetrically with 1 window to left and 2 to right. Doorway has round-headed arch in painted stone with large 'keystone' and brackets. Painted relief of swan in tympanum. Double wooden doors with elliptical windows. Ground floor windows are all three part horned sashes with large panes and have (beneath shallow relieving arches) painted stone lintels with scalloped decoration and moulded stone sills. At right end of building, broad doorway with flat head (below shallow relieving arch) leads through to rear yard.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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