Description

SK1109SE
1094-1/8/28
05/02/52

LICHFIELD
BIRD STREET
(South West side)
No.21 King's Head Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
BIRD STREET
(South West side)
King's Head Inn)

GV
II

Coaching inn, now public house. Mid to late C18 with early C19
alterations. Brick; tile roof, hipped to right end, with brick
end stack. L-plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; 3-window range.
Top cornice. Carriage entrance to right end has rusticated
wedge lintel and paired 6-fielded-panel doors. Windows have
sills; 2 segmental-headed windows to ground floor have
4:12:4-pane tripartite sashes; upper windows have rubbed brick
flat arches, over 12-pane sashes to 1st floor, 6-pane sashes
to 2nd floor. Plaque records raising of a regiment of Foot
here in 1705, by Col Lillingston, later becoming part of the
South Staffordshire Regiment. INTERIOR: heavy chamfered beams
and some exposed timber-framing. A good example of one of the
coaching inns which served the London to Holyhead and Carlisle
road.

Listing NGR: SK1155909485

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504100

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)