Description

TENBURY CP CROSS STREET (west side)
SO 5868 - 5968
8/93 The King's Head Inn
6.10.52

GV II

Public house. Late C16 with circa 1800 and late C19 alterations. Timber-
framed with painted brick and rendered infill, brick replacement walling
and additions, plain tiled roofs and brick stack to south of front roof
pitch. Two framed bays aligned north/south; external chimney with tall
detached rebuilt brick stack at north end. Two storeys. Framing: four
rows of panels from sill to wall-plate. East front elevation has a jettied
first floor with a moulded bressummer on shaped brackets enriched with weather-
worn foliated carving. Collar and tie-beam truss with three struts below
collar and V-strut above at north end. East front elevation: ground floor
has two bays windows, first floor has two 3-light windows. Central entrance
with half-glazed door. Main entrance at north end and has a flat moulded
canopy, panelled surround and a door with four flush panels. External north
chimney is enclosed by a flat roofed single-storey addition with multi-paned
windows to the north and east. Circa 1800 parallel range at rear and sub-
stantial late C19 brick addition to south-west. (VCH IV, p 363; BoE, p 279).

Listing NGR: SO5945468052

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26360790

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)