Kings Head Hotel
KINGS HEAD HOTEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142779
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS HEAD HOTEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142779
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS HEAD HOTEL
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 HOTEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Altarnun
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 22546 80729
Details
SX 28 SW
4/94
ALTARNUN
FIVE LANES
Kings Head Hotel
GII
Public house.Probably mid C18.Stone rubble,painted and rendered on front and hung with rag slates on left and left hand wing.Slate mansard roof to front range,the front slope coated with bitumen.Lower slate roof with gable end to left hand wing.Brick shafts to end stacks.Plan:Overall'L'shaped plan;the front range has a two room and passage plan with entrance to left of centre,the larger room to right and smaller room to left,both
heated by end stacks.Rear wing to left of at least two-room plan.Exterior:Two storeys.Asymmetrical three-window front.Entrance to left of cent flanked by twelve-pane sash to left and twenty-pane sash to right.Three twelve-pane sashes on first floor.C19 and C20 fenestration in rear wing with C18 casement to left.Interior:Not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX2254680729
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68311
- 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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