The Swan
The Swan in 2015
Location in York
General information
TypePublic house
LocationYork, North Yorkshire
Address16 Bishopgate Street, York, YO23 1JH
Coordinates53°57′09″N 1°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] lying immediately south-west of the city centre of York, in England.

The pub 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 the pub. 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, the pub 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 fourteen in the city to appear in the Good Beer Guide.[5]

See also

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.
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