Description

TF 33 NW KIRTON HIGH STREET (south east side)

9/41 The Old King's Head (Formerly listed as 19.11.51 Kings Head Hotel)

G.V. II

Former public house, now house. Early C16, 1599, cross wing 1661, major alterations in Fen Artisan Mannerist style, with C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick in English bond, ashlar dressings and stucco, with pantile roof over thatch. Raised brick coped gables with corbelled out kneelers, single axial triple stack with diagonally set shafts with dentillated tops. T-plan, of hall block with gabled cross wing of 1599. Originally Lobby entry. 2 storey with garret, 5 bay front, the right hand bay advanced and gabled. Ashlar plinth. Single brick and stucco bands, dogtooth eaves course raised to a dentillated course early C20. Rusticated brick quoins. Off-centre panelled double doors with plain overlight in added square porch with flat roof. To left 2 margin light sashes and to right a similar window, all with rusticated brick reveals and cambered heads. Original door now blocked also has rusticated reveals and a pedimented brick head, containing an ashlar panel carved with a lion rampant. To first floor are 2 margin light sashes flanked by shorter brick pilasters. To the right the moulded head only of a 4 light C16 brick mullioned window. In the gable an ashlar datestone 1599 with initials TW, and in the base of the principal stack a further datestone of 1661 and initials IW. To left gable are single blocked windows to each floor with brick surrounds, segmental heads and stepped up string courses. Interior retains C16 roll moulded bressumer to hall inglenook and chamfered beam with pyramid stops. End room has cyma moulded beam with ogee stops. Trapped purl in pegged oak roof, with timber and reed partitions.

Listing NGR: TF3054038472

External Links

• The Old King's Head at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26315283

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990