The Kings Head Hotel
THE KINGS HEAD HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1160205
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Head Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE KINGS HEAD HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1160205
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Head Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KINGS HEAD HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE
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 HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aylesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 81884 13773
Details
1. 799 MARKET SQUARE (North-West Side) The Kings Head Hotel SP 8113 NE 1/33 7.4.52. II* GV
2. C15-16 and 17 and later. Two storeys. A three-gabled front. Brick and timber frame plastered. Old tile roof. Left hand gable C15. Brick plinth. Ground floor timber frame and brick infilling with a large rectangular window almost the whole width of the gable divided into two both horizontally and vertically by heavy oak timbers (part of the main structure); the resulting rectangles are each divided into five making 20 lights in all. The ten upper lights have 4-centred arched heads with splayed spandrels. line glass is mostly of C16-17 date, the upper lights have heraldic roundels. The upper floor oversails and is timber frame and plaster. 1 four-light casement window. C19 casements. Centre gable. Splayed and moulded timber28 entrance archway on ground floor with C17 late - C18 early panelled double doors the whole height, each door three large panels. 1 storey C19 bay on 1st floor over. Right hand gable. Refronted, cement rendered string at 1st floor level. Irregular sash windows. A C17 late - C18 early staircase with turned balusters entered from the right hand of the archway, serves this wing of the building. The courtyard - north side rebuilt, the remainder timber frame, brick and old tile roof. For full description see RCHM Bucks. National Trust Property.
Nos 5 to 9 (odd) and The Kings Head Hotel form a group.
Listing NGR: SP8190113766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41882
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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