What happened
The White Swan stands on Seaton Road in Harringworth, the ironstone village under the Welland viaduct, and the date attached to it is 1550. Historic England's list entry is more careful with the building than the sign is. It describes a public house of seventeenth-century origins, partly reconstructed in the early or middle nineteenth century, in finely squared and coursed limestone under a Collyweston slate roof, with an attached carriage arch to the left and a gabled cross-wing in the middle of a three-window range. Two of the two-light mullioned windows on the ground floor of that cross-wing are probably sixteenth-century stone re-used, with arch-head lights and hood moulds, which is the likeliest honest source of a sixteenth-century date: older stone in a younger wall. Inside there are chamfered and hollow-moulded beams, a fireplace with a four-centred arch head and a staircase with balusters turned in seventeenth-century style. It was listed in May 1967 and the entry amended in March 1988. CAMRA's entry records it closed on 7 January 2018.
What is there now
The building stands, empty. CAMRA's entry, last updated in April 2024, still records the White Swan as closed long term with its future uncertain, and we have traced no source showing it pouring again: the Food Standards Agency's register holds no food business anywhere in Harringworth, and the single OpenStreetMap node for the pub has not been edited since January 2020. It remains Grade II listed as the White Swan Public House and attached carriage arch, list entry 1040118.
Location recorded from OpenStreetMap node 3501900624, The White Swan, Seaton Road (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3501900624).
Sources
- CAMRAcamra.org.uk
- Historic England, via the Internet Archiveweb.archive.org
- Historic Englandhistoricengland.org.uk
- openstreetmap.org
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