The Kings Head Inn
THE KINGS HEAD INN, CROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082431
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Head Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE KINGS HEAD INN, CROSS STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-09-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/08885/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082431
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Head Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KINGS HEAD INN, CROSS 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:
- THE KINGS HEAD INN, CROSS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tenbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 59454 68052
Details
TENBURY CP CROSS STREET (west side) SO 5868 - 5968 8/93 The King's Head Inn 6.10.52
GV II
Public house. Late C16 with circa 1800 and late C19 alterations. Timber- framed with painted brick and rendered infill, brick replacement walling and additions, plain tiled roofs and brick stack to south of front roof pitch. Two framed bays aligned north/south; external chimney with tall detached rebuilt brick stack at north end. Two storeys. Framing: four rows of panels from sill to wall-plate. East front elevation has a jettied first floor with a moulded bressummer on shaped brackets enriched with weather- worn foliated carving. Collar and tie-beam truss with three struts below collar and V-strut above at north end. East front elevation: ground floor has two bays windows, first floor has two 3-light windows. Central entrance with half-glazed door. Main entrance at north end and has a flat moulded canopy, panelled surround and a door with four flush panels. External north chimney is enclosed by a flat roofed single-storey addition with multi-paned windows to the north and east. Circa 1800 parallel range at rear and sub- stantial late C19 brick addition to south-west. (VCH IV, p 363; BoE, p 279).
Listing NGR: SO5945468052
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150784
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 363
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 279
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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