Kings Head Hotel
KINGS HEAD HOTEL, 24, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187499
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS HEAD HOTEL, 24, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187499
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS HEAD HOTEL, 24, MARKET PLACE
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, 24, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cirencester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP0235902024
Details
CIRENCESTER
SP0202 MARKET PLACE
578-1/4/235 (South side)
23/07/71 No.24
Kings Head Hotel
GV II
Hotel. c1860. Probably by Medland and Maberly. Painted stucco;
Welsh slate roof; rendered brick left- and right-end and ridge
stacks, to right with top now missing.
3 storeys and attic; 5-window range. First floor has five
2/2-pane sashes with segmental arched heads in shouldered
architraves with keystones modelled as kings' heads; second
floor has 5 similar windows without keystones.
Ground floor has three 2/2-pane round-headed sashes in moulded
architraves with egg-and-dart outer moulding with stone cills
with panelled aprons; pair of 8-panel doors with leaded
fanlight in pilastered doorcase with round-headed panelled
hood with moulded edge to centre; to far right segmental
headed opening with architrave to match ground floor windows
with keystone modelled as king's head is entrance to through
passage to rear. 5 barrel-roofed dormers with 2-pane tilting
windows in round-headed moulded architraves with shaped
keystones. Pilaster strips to left and right angles are
rusticated to ground floor, panelled to first and second
floors and terminated by carved console brackets with lions'
heads on blocks and pointed finials over. Plinth with moulded
top; moulded cill band to first floor breaks forward into 4
panelled window-boxes each on 3 carved console brackets to 4
windows to left; moulded cill band to second floor; modillion
eaves cornice.
INTERIOR has mid C19 well staircase with elaborate cast-iron
bracketed balusters, shaped cheekpieces, mahogany grip
handrail; first floor front left has run cornice, damaged
plaster arch on square pilasters, no fireplace; ballroom to
second floor rear is large room with segmental-arched ceiling
with decorative plasterwork including panelled Ionic
pilasters, frieze with paterae and fluting and panelled strips
running across ceiling, plasterwork probably mid C19 with C20
alterations.
(The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The
Cotswolds: London: 1970-: P.173).
Listing NGR: SP0235902024
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365371
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970), 173
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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