Cottage Attached To Kings Head Public House Kings Head Public House

The Kings Head Public House and the attached cottage date from the 16th and 19th centuries. The cottage, built around 1560, features a timber frame with weatherboarding and a red plain tiled roof. It has a right external red brick chimney stack, is one storey high with attics, and includes a gabled dormer and two ground floor two-light casement windows. There are horizontal sliding sashes on the right return attic and a glazed porch with a grey slate roof on the left.

The 19th-century section is made of plastered brick and also has a red plain tiled roof, with a rear right gault chimney stack. This part is two storeys tall and has a two-window range of small paned vertically sliding sash windows, with a doorway to the right that features a moulded surround and a flat canopy on brackets. To the left, there is a forward single-storey range with a grey slate roof, one vertically sliding sash window, and a segmental headed doorway.

Inside, the cottage has stop-chamfered bridging and ceiling joists, a very large chimney stack that now has a 20th-century fireplace, and stairs that wrap around the chimney. The interior also includes vertically boarded doors with original ironmongery, one featuring bolts and a bar, a semi-circular cast iron fire surround, boarded walls, a vertically boarded cupboard, and a heavy tie beam.