Kings Head Public House
KINGS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 12 AND 14, QUEEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270186
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head Public House
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 12 AND 14, QUEEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270186
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Apr-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 12 AND 14, QUEEN 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:
- KINGS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 12 AND 14, QUEEN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ulverston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 28542 78288
Details
ULVERSTON
SD2878 QUEEN STREET 626-1/3/112 (West side) 20/06/72 Nos.12 AND 14 King's Head Public House (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN STREET (West side) No.12) (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN STREET (West side) No.14 King's Head)
GV II
House and public house, now public house. Possibly mid C19 with C18 remains. Painted scored render with slate roof and brick chimney. Altered 3-room plan. The main part of building is of 2 storeys and 3 bays. The windows have plain reveals and projecting painted sills. Those on the ground floor are now C20 casements with glazing bars. On the 1st floor they are sashed. A cart entrance in the left-hand bay has boarded doors and a timber lintel. The doorway, between the 2nd and 3rd bays, has a segmental head and is reached by 2 steps. To the right of the 1st bay there is a tall chimney. At the right is a further bay of 3 tall storeys, formerly a separate building. It has wide window openings with plain reveals, projecting sills, and casements with glazing bars. The ground-floor window opening is a later C20 alteration. Its gables rise above the adjoining buildings and have chimneys.
Listing NGR: SD2854278288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460013
- 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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