The Kings Head
8, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319240
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Head
- Statutory Address:
- 8, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319240
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Kings Head
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, STATION ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE KINGS HEAD, STATION ROAD
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:
- 8, STATION ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE KINGS HEAD, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ivinghoe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 94495 16194
Details
SP 91 NW IVINGHOE STATION ROAD
4/83 The King's Head and No. 8
18.10.66
GV II
Restaurant and public house with cottage attached at N.W. end. N.W. wing incorporates 2 bays of medieval cruck building, remainder C16 and C17, all re-cased in brick late C18-C19, with later alterations. S.W. front is mostly of red and vitreous brick with red brick dressings, the 2 right bays of white brick. S.E. front has roughcast and whitewashed upper storey. Old tile roofs, brick chimneys, that to centre of S.W. range C17 with 'V' pilasters. L-plan, 2 storeys. Long range to S.W. is of 8 irregular bays. 2 bays to right have C19 3-light barred wooden casements with small panes, the right bay gabled. Remaining bays have C20 wooden casements with segmental heads, some with leaded top lights. Canted bay window and first floor oriel in 4th bay. C20 double doors in 5th bay with wooden balcony over, another door to left. Lower range to left has carriage entry with flanking cruck trusses, the right bay containing part of another cruck. Left bay, No.8, has C20 casements, that to ground floor a bow window with wide board door to left. S.E. front of 3 bays has barred horizontal sliding sashes to ground floor and 2 leaded casements above. C20 extensions in rear angle. Interior shows remains of timber frame with heavily jowled main posts and some diagonal braces. Ground floor room to right of main chimney has stop-chamfered spine beam and moulded fireplace lintel. Staircase with fine late C18 turned balusters and moulded handrail. RCHM II p.157 Mon. 10.
Listing NGR: SP9448416206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42068
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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