THE KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE

THE KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, MARDOL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1270680
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: THE KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, MARDOL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1270680
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: THE KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, MARDOL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, MARDOL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shrewsbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ 48994 12693

Details

SHREWSBURY

SJ4812NE MARDOL 653-1/10/426 (North East side) 10/01/53 The King's Head Public House (Formerly Listed as: MARDOL (East side) King's Head Inn)

GV II*

Public house, possibly built as inn. Late C15. Timber-framed with plain tiled roof. 3 storeys, wide 2-window range. Central doorway with continuous band of windows to ground floor, reproducing the traceried detail of original windows. Jettied first storey framed in large panels with cusped arch bracing at each end and centrally forming trefoiled panels. Paired windows forming two 6-light casements with traceried heads. Second storey also jettied, and framed in large panels with plain bracing and joweled central post. Paired windows form 6-light casements with leaded panes. INTERIOR: remains of wall-painting exposed and conserved on internal wall, representing Last Supper. (Smith JT: Shrewsbury: Topography and Domestic Architecture to the Mid C17: 1953-).

Listing NGR: SJ4899412693

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Legacy System number:: 457605
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Smith, J T, Shrewsbury Topography and Domestic Architecture to the Mid C17, (1953)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.