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Date of photo: 2020	Picture source: Simon A
The White Swan was situated at County Bridge. This grade-II listed pub closed c2015 and is now in residential use.
Listed building details:
The White Swan 29.10.81 Public House and Swan Cottage (formerly listed as The White Swan Public House) Public house with attached house. North part early C18, south part probably early C19 but with older fabric. North end rendered and whitewashed, street front squared stone, rear elevations rubble with cut dressings. Graduated stone slate roofs, with white brick north end stack. North end, fronting to bridge, shows 6-panel door in tooled stone surround flanked by windows with renewed glazing; above right painted sign board, above left 4-pane sash. Coped gable on moulded kneelers, with stack at apex. Street front in 2 parts. Older left section 2 storeys on basement, 2 irregular bays. Inserted doors and scattered openings in tooled stone surrounds. Right section 2 storeys, 3 irregular bays. Boarded double doors under elliptical arch, 2 boarded doors, scattered windows; ridge and right end stacks. Fenestration 4-pane sashes or C20 casements. River front: Older right part 3 storeys + basement, 3 bays, the left set back. Right bays have small basement windows, flat-faced cross windows (one altered) above, stone-surround windows (one blocked) on 1st floor and 5-light window (3 lights blocked, 2 with 9-pane Yorkshire sashes), perhaps to a former. weaving floor, at the top. Left part shows various sash windows on top floor, and small openings below. The position of the building and a large round arch suggestive of a wheel housing, revealed by a fall of masonry in the basement of the south part, indicate that it may have been a mill.
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Date of photo: 2020	Picture source: Simon A