The Rose And Crown Public House

The Rose and Crown Public House is a building that was originally a house, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with an early 19th-century parallel rear range to the southwest, a mid-19th-century single-storey addition to the southeast, and a 20th-century conservatory over the rear courtyard that links to outbuildings. It is constructed of red brick with black headers arranged in a chequer pattern, and has a plum brick rear range. The building features a wooden cornice beneath a steep hipped roof covered in old red tiles.

The structure is two storeys tall with attics, consisting of two cells and a central passage. The rear wall has chimneys and the house faces east, with a raised terrace in front. The eastern front includes a plinth and a tented roof verandah that is hipped at the ends, supported by slender cast iron columns. There are two flat-topped dormers on the roof slope, two wide recessed sash windows with flat gauged arches and 8/8 panes, and a narrow window with 4/4 panes in the middle. The ground floor features two wider sash windows with 8/8 panes and external shutters, flanking a central door that has a heavy frame and a rectangular fanlight above it. A later door has been cut through near the right-hand corner, and there is a cellar trap to the right of the central door. The rear wall of the verandah is whitewashed, and there is an ornate wrought iron bracket with a hanging sign fixed to a moulded jowled stock beside a narrow upper window.

The northern end of the building has a rectangular single-storey bay window with a hipped tile roof and a sash window above it with 8/8 panes. The southern end features a triple boxed sash window with a combination of 2/2, 6/6, and 2/2 panes, which has broad glazing bars, along with a name board at the top right corner displaying the fine painted lettering 'KING'S LANGLEY'. There are also twin 19th-century sash windows in the low extension, separated by a cast iron column. The southern end of the rear range has a sash window with 10/10 panes. Inside, the building retains an exposed floor structure with squared joists and chamfered axial beams featuring bar and triangle stops.