Former Kings Head Hotel
1, East Street, Horsham
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353904
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Kings Head Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- 1, East Street, Horsham
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353904
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Kings Head Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, East Street, Horsham
- Statutory Address 2:
- 35, Carfax, Horsham
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:
- 1, East Street, Horsham
- Statutory Address:
- 35, Carfax, Horsham
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 17285 30523
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 September 2025 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 1730
1/33
CARFAX (east side)
No 35, Former King's Head Hotel
(Formerly listed as No 35 (The King's Head Hotel))
GV
II
With No 1 East Street.
Date written on the front is 1401, but the facade is C18. Mostly stuccoed with some painted brick. Two storeys. Four windows. Horsham slab roof. Eaves cornice. Two bay windows on both floors. Sash windows, glazing bars intact on first floor. Early C20 windows with Ipswich frames on ground floor. Wide rusticated doorway. High arched carriageway at north end and modern extension beyond it. The former King's Head Hotel continues along East Street. This part is late C18 or early C19. Three storeys. Five windows.Red brick. Hipped Horsham slab roof, half-hipped to west. Eaves cornice. One bay window of three-lights through upper two floors to west, another bay of three-lights through all three floors in centre. Sash windows, glazing bars missing. Mid C19 ground floor front on corner with Carfax. No 1 East Street continues as C19 wing to east. Three storeys. Four windows. Red brick with some grey headers and stuccoed dressings. Cornice and parapet with moulded capping. Projecting bay on left with pediment and rusticated quoins. Cornice between first and second floors continuing to right where it is broken by three round-headed windows rising through first and second floors. All upper windows are sashes, glazing bars missing. Rusticated ground floor with cornice over.
Nos 33 to 35 (consec) together with Nos 34A, 34C and with No 1 East Street form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ1730330520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 298110
- 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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