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Date of photo: 2022	Photo © Steve Turner
The Swan & Falcon was situated at 15 High Street. This pub closed c1920.
Grade-II listed early 17th century timber framed building. Barclay's Bank moved down High Street in 2009 when the building was sold. It has had a number of occupants since. Dendrochronology in the main building has dated internal framework to c.1407. The buildings to the rear described as a barn in planning files was a stable block and has variously been in residential and office use. In 2019 planning approved plans for a single dwelling in this stable block. The main building was previously the Swan & Falcon Inn (also known as The Falcon Inn) and planning in August 2017 was granted to return it to a pub. An application for a premises licence was made to Shropshire Council in 2016 for the 'Huntsman and the Whipper Inn 15 High Street Much Wenlock'. The Swan & Falcon was one of the towns principle inns in the 18th century and closed around 1920. Kelly's 1913 directory lists the Swan & Falcon as licensed in the 16th century. A search of my directories for the inn produced; 1828 Moses Burton; 1835 Mary Burton; 1842-1871 George Wheeler; 1880-1895 Joseph Barnett; 1913 Thomas Richard Horton.
Steve Turner (August 2022)
Listed building details:
Early C17. Timber frame and whitewashed brick; two storeys plus attic; two modern moulded wood mullioned and transomed eight-light wlndows, two ditto below with two small lights at centre; modern moulded wood doorcase raised on steps to side; plain gable; corbelled wood eaves; two dormers; stack with diagonal brick shafts; timber framed wing over passage-way to left-hand of rear. Good Jacobean staircase. Formerly the Falcon Inn.
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