The Kings Head
THE KINGS HEAD, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090756
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Head
- Statutory Address:
- THE KINGS HEAD, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090756
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Head
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KINGS HEAD, HIGH 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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Stanley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 81182 03502
Details
SO 8103 KING'S STANLEY HIGH STREET (east side)
13/14 The King's Head
GV II
Public house. c1820. Flemish bond red brick (painted); coursed rubble limestone; brick chimneys; plain tile and Welsh slate roofs. Two-storey with attic; 2-storey out-building attached at east end. Front: 4-window 16-pane sash fenestration with gauged brick flat arches; late C20 shutters. Off-centre round-arched doorway with C20 plank door and glazing. Four small-paned gabled roof dormers. Stone quoins to front corners of elevation. Brick chimneys to rubble gable ends, east end having off-centre attic casement with timber lintel. C20 altered rear wing at west end. C20 doors and windows inserted in outbuilding at east end, probably formerly stables. Various C20 additions to rear not of special interest. An inn has been recorded on this site since 1766. Has important position at road junction in village. (N.M. Herbert, 'King's Stanley' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 242- 257)
Listing NGR: SO8118203502
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131888
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972), 242-257
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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