Kings Head
KINGS HEAD, 40, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294096
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS HEAD, 40, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294096
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS HEAD, 40, 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.
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, 40, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bedale
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 26666 88133
Details
BEDALE MARKET PLACE SE 2688-2788 (west side) 8/28 No 40 (Kings Head) 22.8.66 (formerly listed as The Kings Head Hotel) GV II Public house. Early to mid C18. Brick, rendered, with Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 4 bays. Cement plinth. 2nd bay from left has a 4-panel door with overlight with side glazing bars. Doorcase with pilasters, consoles, frieze and cornice. Flanked by C19 canted bays with stone cills, 4-pane central sashes and 2-pane side sashes, friezes and cornices. Right-hand bay has carriage entrance with wooden surround of plinths, pilasters, frieze and cornice. 1st floor: 16-pane sashes with stone cills. 2nd floor: C20 casements, apart from 2nd bay from right which is blind, all with stone cills. Stone coping and end stacks. Interior: 1st floor:Jacobean-style chimney piece dated 'WW 1690', has architrave with 2 heads and shield below mantelshelf and above pilasters surmounted by male heads flanking large coat of arms.
Listing NGR: SE2665988130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333536
- 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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