Queen's Head Hotel
QUEEN'S HEAD HOTEL, 2, BRIDEWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208449
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Queen's Head Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- QUEEN'S HEAD HOTEL, 2, BRIDEWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208449
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Queen's Head Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEEN'S HEAD HOTEL, 2, BRIDEWELL 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:
- QUEEN'S HEAD HOTEL, 2, BRIDEWELL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wymondham
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 11138 01454
Details
WYMONDHAM
TF1101 BRIDEWELL STREET 655-1/11/20 (South side) 29/12/50 No.2 Queen's Head Hotel (Formerly Listed as: BRIDEWELL STREET (South side) No.2 Queen's Head Inn)
GV II
Public house. Early 17, probably 1616, range one room deep. Various extensions. Restored and altered 1989. Timber-framed with black glazed pantiles to front, concrete pantiles and corrugated tiles to rear. Baffle-entry plan. Rendered and colourwashed. 2 storeys and dormer attic in 4 irregular bays. 2 doorways, that to right blocked. 3 mid C19 three-light cross casements. First floor with three 3-light mid C19 casements and one 2-light version. All openings with hoods on labels. Bell-based gabled roof with 2 inserted gabled dormers. Central ridge stack and internal gable-end stack, both C19 and both with twin diamond flues. At rear an early C19 two-storeyed brick ballroom extends south from east end. INTERIOR. Thin scantling frame. Bressumer of west fireplace with sunk-quadrant mouldings. Roll-moulded bridging beam to west end, and other, chamfered, beams. Frame with jowled principal studs carrying straight braces to tie beams (one pair of arched braces also). Corner tension braces. Roof of 2 tiers butt purlins and cambered collars. Ballroom details largely 1989.
Listing NGR: TG1113801454
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386077
- 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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