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The Swan Inn was situated on Church Street. This Brakspears owned grade-II listed pub closed at the end of 2014.
Now converted to use as a tapas restaurant.
Movement80 (August 2015)
Review from tantallon.org.uk:
Free House It is an enormous relief to find this genuinely old pub in Bicester's town  centre. It has Greene King IPA and Abbot Ale on cask, and a guest ale. That time it was Chadwick's Bitter, which is a surprisingly well-flavoured session bitter. Restrained hoppiness. Barman keen to point out how bad the rest of the pubs in Bicester are. I'm inclined to agree with him at the moment. One wall covered in blackboard listing food, which is very reasonable. Didn't try any of it, though. Impressive dog with huge tongue hanging out. Had it not been night, I would have suggested that it had sunstroke. The enormously scary thing about it, however, is that across the road there's a house painted white with a cross of St George on it, and the scores of the England matches in the last World Cup above each of the windows. Chadwick's Bitter (3.7%) £1.39 Jacket potatoes from £1.25 to £3.95 8 oz steak £5.95 4 oz steak £4.99 Chips £1.50 Bread and butter 25p Garlic mushrooms £1.50 (12.iii.1999)
Listed building details:
Public house. 1681 on datestone, altered and extended C20. Coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile roof with rebuilt brick stacks. 2-unit plan, extended to rear. 2 storeys plus attics. 2-window front has a doorway, to left of centre, between C20 canted bay windows, but retains 12-pane sashes with chamfered lintels at first floor, plus a datestone inscribed "M/EE/1681". Roof has been slightly raised and has a C20 dormer. Large early-C20 wing to rear is not of special architectural interest. Interior not inspected. Included for group value.
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