King's Head Public House
KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 21, BIRD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209036
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- King's Head Public House
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 21, BIRD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209036
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- King's Head Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 21, BIRD 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:
- KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 21, BIRD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lichfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK1155909485
Details
SK1109SE
1094-1/8/28
05/02/52
LICHFIELD
BIRD STREET
(South West side)
No.21 King's Head Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
BIRD STREET
(South West side)
King's Head Inn)
GV
II
Coaching inn, now public house. Mid to late C18 with early C19
alterations. Brick; tile roof, hipped to right end, with brick
end stack. L-plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; 3-window range.
Top cornice. Carriage entrance to right end has rusticated
wedge lintel and paired 6-fielded-panel doors. Windows have
sills; 2 segmental-headed windows to ground floor have
4:12:4-pane tripartite sashes; upper windows have rubbed brick
flat arches, over 12-pane sashes to 1st floor, 6-pane sashes
to 2nd floor. Plaque records raising of a regiment of Foot
here in 1705, by Col Lillingston, later becoming part of the
South Staffordshire Regiment. INTERIOR: heavy chamfered beams
and some exposed timber-framing. A good example of one of the
coaching inns which served the London to Holyhead and Carlisle
road.
Listing NGR: SK1155909485
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382575
- 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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