The Swan, York

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The Swan
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The Swan in 2015
The Swan, York
Location in York
General information
TypePublic house
Location York, North Yorkshire
Address16 Bishopgate Street, York, YO23 1JH
Coordinates 53°57′09″N1°05′02″W / 53.95262°N 1.08384°W / 53.95262; -1.08384
Completed1861
Designations
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameThe Swan Public House
Designated14 April 2010
Reference no. 1393749
Website
http://www.theswanyork.co.uk/

The Swan is a Grade II listed historic pub, [1] immediately south-west of the city centre of York, in England.

It was built as a beer house and grocery in 1861, at the end of a terrace on Bishopgate Street, the northern extension of Bishopthorpe Road. In 1899 it was purchased by the Joshua Tetley's & Son brewery, which in 1936 decided to remodel it. The redesign was executed by the Leeds architecture firm Kitson, Parish, Ledgard and Pyman, and it survives largely intact. [1] [2]

The design centres on a large drinking lobby, with two rooms leading off, the public bar to the front and the grander smoke room to the rear. Each has a hatch for bar service. There is a hatch from the servery to Clementhorpe, which was used for take-out sales, but is no longer in use. At the rear of the pub, there are stairs up to first-floor accommodation, and down to the cellar. [1] [2]

Surviving features from the 1936 redesign include the fitted seats, terrazzo floor, bell pushes, and toilets. It was made a Tetley's heritage pub in 1985 and was listed in 2010 following a campaign by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). That organisation describes the pub as "one of the best preserved interiors of its kind in the country". [2]

In 2009, CAMRA named The Swan its York Pub of the Year. [3] By 2017, it was owned by Punch Taverns. That year, the landlord used the Pubs Code Regulations 2016 to move from being a tied house to operating on a market rent-only basis. [4] In 2020, the pub was one of 14 in the city to appear in the Good Beer Guide . [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Historic England. "The Swan Public House (1393749)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Gamston, David (2014). Yorkshire's Real Heritage Pubs (2 ed.). St Albans: Campaign for Real Ale. p. 56. ISBN   9781852493158.
  3. "Cheers! York's pub of the year is named - New photo added". The Press. 18 February 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  4. Ross, Alex (17 September 2017). "Landlord at The Swan severs ties with pub supplier in legal victory". The Press. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  5. "Fourteen of York's pub are named in The Good Beer Guide 2020". The Press. 12 September 2019.