Queen's Head Inn

QUEEN'S HEAD INN, BRIDGE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1279489
Date first listed:
07-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
Queen's Head Inn
Statutory Address:
QUEEN'S HEAD INN, BRIDGE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1279489
Date first listed:
07-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
Queen's Head Inn
Statutory Address 1:
QUEEN'S HEAD INN, BRIDGE 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.

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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

Location

Statutory Address:
QUEEN'S HEAD INN, BRIDGE STREET

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Kington
National Grid Reference:
SO 29840 56586

Details

KINGTON

SO2956 BRIDGE STREET 643-1/1/29 (East side) 07/08/72 Queen's Head Inn

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House, now inn. Early C20 front to C17 core. Roughcast; Welsh slate roof; brick stack to left front; brick stack to rear; massive rubble stack to right rear. 2 storeys and cellar; 4-window range: 2/2 casements. C20 inn-front with central half-glazed door, and screens; to right, 4-light window with casements; to left, 2 late C19 6/6 sashes in broad beaded cases, and curved light in left return; moulded fascia-board on fluted pilasters, overall. Right returned side: roughcast; C19 three-light metal casement, over window with broad glazing bars; large purlins to rear pitch. Left returned side: dressed stone buttress-stack; C19 2/2 casement, and C18 6/6 sliding sash in box framing; blocked light with span-arch head to gable; central C20 door in C18 fluted wood case; C19 windows. Rear wing: C17 box framing on rubble plinth: paired C18 6/6 sliding sashes; weatherboarded gable, to rear.

Listing NGR: SO2984056586

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
385790
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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