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The Swan & Mitre was situated at 305 Lichfield Road. This grade-II listed pub was previously known as The Swan Pool Tavern.

Listed building details:

Public house. 1898-9 by James and Lister Lea for the Holt Brewery Company. Red brick and terracotta (terracotta probably from Hathern Station Brick and Terrcotta Company of Loughborough). Slate roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable end stacks. Plan: Situated on corner site with corner and front entrances to the bars and end entrances to the smoke room at the back and stairs. Dutch Renaissance style. Exterior: 2 storeys. 2:1:2 bay Lichfield Road elevation and 2:1:2 bay right hand return to Holborn Hill with canted corner carrying oriel with wooden cupola above with ogee dome with tall spike finial. The 2-window bays break forward and have shaped gables. The ornate terracotta ground floor has large moulded elliptically arched windows with keystones, rooks, shafts and balustered wooden mullions; the narrower doorways are similarly detailed but with round arches; roundels above the doors and spandrels above window arches with an entablature above that which continues around the corner oriel, the soffit of which has terracotta foliage decoration. Paved first floor windows have ornate terracotta pediments with swagged console brackets. Windows have leaded panes with some stained glass. Panelled doors with semi-circular fanlights. The right hand 2 bays of Holborn Hill elevation forms plain red brick rear wing. Interior: The bars have Jacobean style wooden bar backs and bar fronts with fluted pilasters, arched mirrors and clocks above. The smoke-room has an imported wooden chimneypiece with bulbous colonettes flanking the overmantel mirror.The passage and stairs have tiled walls and the staircase has turned newels and balusters.

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