Kings Head Inn
KINGS HEAD INN, 12, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054327
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head Inn
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS HEAD INN, 12, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054327
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS HEAD INN, 12, CHURCH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS HEAD INN, 12, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 28991 29553
Details
SJ 2829 NE OSWESTRY C.P. CHURCH STREET (west side)
13/39 No. 12 (Kings Head Inn) -
GV II
House, now inn. Mid-C19 re-fronting of C16 or C17 building with later additions and alterations. Red brick with timber frame to side and rear, slate roof and internal end stack to left. 3 storeys, corbelled eaves cornice; 3-window front, plate-glass sashes to first floor and one plate-glass sash and 2 casements to second floor; C19 inn front completely re-modelled late C20 but retains consoles supporting plain entablature, boarded door to passageway on left has rectangular barred overlight. Light square panels exposed to right side of passageway which has chamfered beam with straight-cut stops. Low timber framed range to rear has square panels and painted brick infill. Interior: chamfered spine beam to long range but other ceiling beams boxed in.
Listing NGR: SJ2898629559
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255509
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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