The Kings Head Inn

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