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

• Historic England Listing
• The Old King's Head at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26315283

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)