The Saracen Head Public House

KINGS LANGLEY HIGH STREET TL 0702 (East side) 13/135 The Saracens Head PH 26.1.67 (formerly listed as The Saracens Head Inn)

GV II

Inn. C16 N wing, C17 front range and NE extension to wing, brick front early C18, altered internally 1967. Timber frame on brick sill, dark weatherboarding to N and E gables but N wall with brick infill painted white. Red brick front now painted. Steep old red tile roofs hipped with gablet at N. 3-cells 2-storeys, with N-end crosswing extending to rear. Large central chimney at junction of main range and crosswing 3 windows irregular W front to road with 3-light mullioned casement windows under deep segmental arches on ground floor, moulded wooden cornice at eaves, tiled gabled weatherboarded porch and irregular group of square shafted chimneys in red brick in front slope of roof. Jowled posts, side-purlin roof, curved brace, and large rectangular panels. Extant lease of 1619. N wing has curved wind-braces to a collar truss clasped purlin 2-bay roof. Unjowled posts and straight braces to C17 NE part. 4-centred brick arched fireplace on 1st floor on S side of stack with relief plaster decoration on chimney breast of a lozenge shaped vine-scroll border with large crown over a 5 lobed rose within 2 circles of ornament (c.1600). (KLLHMS Report 1980 in NMR).

Listing NGR: TL0722302664