York Historic Environment Record

The hotel was built in 1912 when Piccadilly was created by opening up a gap in a row of medieval buildings linking Coppergate and Pavement. At that time the old White Swan was demolished and its name and function transferred to the new hotel built on the newly formed corner of Coppergate and Piccadilly. It directly marks an important improvement in the creation of the new street and is included in the list for that reason. It also fits well with the adjacent medieval buildings in Coppergate and into the Piccadilly street scene, occupying suitably the space for which it was designed. Nominated for inclusion on York's Local List of heritage assets.

NMR related object: BF061055 THE WHITE SWAN HOTEL, YORK

Empty for decades, it was briefly squatted and renamed the Rainbow Peace Hotel in 2003 . This captures the publics fustration at the building been left derelict after closing in the 1980's The hotel was built in 1912 when Piccadilly was created by opening up a gap in a row of medieval buildings linking Coppergate and Pavement. At that time the old White Swan was demolished and its name and function transferred to the new hotel built on the newly formed corner of Coppergate and Piccadilly. It directly marks an important improvement in the creation of the new street and is included in the list for that reason. It also fits well with the adjacent medieval buildings in Coppergate and into the Piccadilly street scene, occupying suitably the space for which it was designed. Renovation started 2014 and in 2015 the building reopened as a bar , the Pavement Vaults with apartments above .
York Civic Trust