Queen's Head Public House

QUEEN'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 8 AND 9, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1278296
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1950
List Entry Name:
Queen's Head Public House
Statutory Address:
QUEEN'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 8 AND 9, MARKET PLACE
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Date:
2000-12-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1278296
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1950
List Entry Name:
Queen's Head Public House
Statutory Address 1:
QUEEN'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 8 AND 9, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
QUEEN'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 8 AND 9, MARKET PLACE

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

County:
Nottinghamshire
District:
Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
Parish:
Newark
National Grid Reference:
SK 79838 53936

Details

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7953NE MARKET PLACE 619-1/8/226 (West side) 29/09/50 Nos.8 & 9 Queen's Head public house

GV II

House, now Public house. Early C16, restored 1960. Mid C20 rear addition. Close studded timber framing with arch braces and rendered nogging, with brick underbuild and plain tile roof with sprocketed eaves. Jettied upper floors with curved brackets. 3 storeys, 3 bays. C20 windows with leaded glazing. Central canted 5-light oriel window flanked by single 3-light casements. Above, 3 smaller continuous casements of 3:5:3 lights. Central double door with overlight, flanked by single 4-light casements. Right gable has two 3-light casements on each floor, those to the second floor being smaller. Large rear addition, brick with plain tile roof. Interior has extensive exposed timber framing, much of it renewed, with rough hewn span beams and pole joists. Single purlin principal rafter roof with collars and wind braces, and arch-braced cambered tie beams. (Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 192).

Listing NGR: SK7983853936

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
385079
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 192

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Queen's Head Public House

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