Kings Head Hotel

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 MARKET PLACE 578-1/4/235 (South side) 23/07/71 No.24 Kings Head Hotel

GV II

Hotel. c1860. Probably by Medland and Maberly. Painted stucco; Welsh slate roof; rendered brick left- and right-end and ridge stacks, to right with top now missing. 3 storeys and attic; 5-window range. First floor has five 2/2-pane sashes with segmental arched heads in shouldered architraves with keystones modelled as kings' heads; second floor has 5 similar windows without keystones. Ground floor has three 2/2-pane round-headed sashes in moulded architraves with egg-and-dart outer moulding with stone cills with panelled aprons; pair of 8-panel doors with leaded fanlight in pilastered doorcase with round-headed panelled hood with moulded edge to centre; to far right segmental headed opening with architrave to match ground floor windows with keystone modelled as king's head is entrance to through passage to rear. 5 barrel-roofed dormers with 2-pane tilting windows in round-headed moulded architraves with shaped keystones. Pilaster strips to left and right angles are rusticated to ground floor, panelled to first and second floors and terminated by carved console brackets with lions' heads on blocks and pointed finials over. Plinth with moulded top; moulded cill band to first floor breaks forward into 4 panelled window-boxes each on 3 carved console brackets to 4 windows to left; moulded cill band to second floor; modillion eaves cornice. INTERIOR has mid C19 well staircase with elaborate cast-iron bracketed balusters, shaped cheekpieces, mahogany grip handrail; first floor front left has run cornice, damaged plaster arch on square pilasters, no fireplace; ballroom to second floor rear is large room with segmental-arched ceiling with decorative plasterwork including panelled Ionic pilasters, frieze with paterae and fluting and panelled strips running across ceiling, plasterwork probably mid C19 with C20 alterations. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds: London: 1970-: P.173).

Listing NGR: SP0235902024