Old Queens Head Public House

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SK3587SE POND HILL 784-1/25/602 (South side) 01/05/52 No.40 Old Queen's Head Public House

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Formerly known as: Hall i' th' Ponds POND HILL. House, now public house. c1475, with mid and late C19 and C20 additions, restored mid C20. Timber-framed front range, with rendered nogging, brick and dressed stone gables and steep pitched slate roof with 2 rendered gable stacks. Rear additions rendered, with hipped slate roofs and single rendered gable stack. EXTERIOR: front block, 2 storeys; 2 window range. Close studded first floor with coved jetty and eaves, with 2 large 3-light glazing bar casements. Ground floor has figure-carved posts and carved bressumer. Studs removed and replaced by rendered infill panels. To right, a recessed C19 door flanked to left by a paired plain sash and to right by an altered cross casement. Left gable has dressed stone ground floor with the tops of 2 posts and renewed bressumer. Above, 2 large 3-light glazing bar casements and below, to left, a C19 Tudor arched door. To right, a C19 cross casement and a small 2-light mullioned window. 3-storey rear addition has first-floor sillband and a 16 pane sash. Above, a 12 pane sash. Both these windows have multi keystone lintels. Below, a 16 pane sash. To left, a canted corner with a blocked door. At the rear, a late C19 addition, reduced to a single storey with flat roof, with three 16 pane sashes. INTERIOR has 3 figure carved posts on the ground floor, and may contain further timber framing and roof structure. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 457).

Listing NGR: SK3581387254