Cut Mark - The Swan's Nest, Bridgefoot, Stratford-upon-Avon. CV37 7LT - U.K. and Ireland Trigpoints on Waymarking.com

Built as a town house for Sir John Clopton in c1673 and probably incorporating part of an older building, it was one of the first brick buildings in Stratford. There have been various additions since 1897 and it is now Grade II listed, of red brick with limestone ashlar dressings and a hipped tile roof with brick stacks. In restoration style, a double-depth plan, and two storeys with a symmetrical six-window front range. There is a rubble plinth, ashlar platt band over the ground floor, rusticated quoins and top cornice with timber-modillioned eaves with central pedimental gablet. The entrance has a doorcase with pilasters and entablature to a four-pane door. The windows have rubbed brick flat arches with ashlar keys over 16-pane sashes, but the ground floor to the left of the entrance has later windows inserted below old lintels which are of plaster wedge over paired 16-pane horned sashes flanking a single sash. The central first-floor window has brick pilasters and a small-paned French window with a C20th sign above, and a C19th balcony on scrolly wrought-iron brackets with similar panels to the balustrade. There is a later external lateral stack to the right of the entrance. The right return is a four-window range with small-paned cross-casement windows, six to the ground floor and a cross-axial stack. There are C19th and C20th rear wings, with a conservatory to the right of an elliptical-headed entrance with a doorcase with an open pediment. The left return has a stack and two single-storey wings with hipped roofs. Now an hotel called The Swan's Nest it was originally called The Bear.

This upscale hotel is a 3-minute walk from the Stratford Butterfly Farm and an 8-minute walk from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre on the north bank of the River Avon.

The cut-mark is on the north-west face of the hotel on the platt band, it looks as if it has been restored when the platt band was restored and has a missing cross bar. The left arm is shorter than the right and the filling seems to have been smoothed with a finger.

The entry for this grid location in the Ordnance Survey Benchmark Locator shows a cut-mark on the wall on the south-east side of Tiddington Road, B4036. This road is the north-eastward extension of what is now known as The Swan's Nest, the modern name for this section of the road. The mark is 5.2m north-east of the building junction on the north-west face and has been surveyed at 36.910m above the Newlyn datum, last verified in 1961 at 0.200m above ground level.

Type of Trigpoint: Cut Bench Mark Condition: Damaged Number on Flush Bracket: none

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Date Logged Log User Rating   06/08/2017 Alancache visited it