Three Kings Inn

TL 4675 HADDENHAM STATION ROAD (East side)

19/18 Three Kings Inn

GV II

Inn. Early C17. Some alterations of late C17 and early C18. Timber framed, rendered and partly cased with red and gault brick. English bond particularly to gable ends. Red pantile roof formerly thatched with ridge stack between front and rear ranges and subsidiary stacks to gable ends. L-plan having crosswing at south end. Cellar, two storeys and lofts. Front elevation altered in C20. The carriageway at the north end has been blocked and a doorway to the crosswing is now partly glazed. Three first floor hung sashes, flush frame in open boxing. The rear wing is of two bays, possibly medieval. Originally of one storey. The roof was raised and first floor added in C17. Timber frame is here cased in early C17-early C18 brick painted at ground floor and gable end rendered at first floor. Interior: Front range of two bays with two bay crosswing. Heavy ceiling frame of stop chamfered joists and main beams. Reset above the bar are ovolo moulded beams. An inglenook hearth is now blocked but one to the south side of the crosswing is exposed. The front wall has been rebuilt at ground floor. There is a cellar which is red brick lined and vaulted with a drain or passage (now blocked) leading to the north. The cellar extends beyond the former carriageway. At first floor some of the framing with jowled heads to the posts and chamfered wall plates is exposed. There is a c.1700 bolection moulded fireplace to a first floor chamber and some reset panelling including some of run through type to a door. The rear wing is also framed. On the north side of the inglenook a corner post remaining from the single storey building is visible. It has a thickened head and the tie beam and a wall plate, now cased, are also visible. Later in C17 the inglenook and the ceiling and first floor were inserted. The roof over the front range and south crosswing is of conventional side purlin type and that over the rear wing also C17 but of staggered butt purlin.

Listing NGR: TL4643275503