The Kings Head Hotel

The Kings Head Hotel is a building dating from the 15th to 17th centuries, with later alterations. It stands two storeys high and features a three-gabled front. The construction includes a combination of brick and timber framing, which is plastered, topped with an old tile roof. The left-hand gable originates from the 15th century and has a brick plinth. The ground floor showcases a large rectangular window that spans almost the entire width of the gable, divided both horizontally and vertically by heavy oak timbers, resulting in 20 individual lights. The ten upper lights have 4-centred arched heads with splayed spandrels, and the glass is mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries, with heraldic roundels in the upper lights. The upper floor overhangs and is constructed of timber frame and plaster, featuring one four-light casement window with 19th-century casements.

The central gable includes a splayed and moulded timber entrance archway on the ground floor, which leads to late 17th to early 18th-century panelled double doors that extend the full height, with each door consisting of three large panels. There is a one-storey 19th-century bay window above this entrance. The right-hand gable has been refronted and features a cement-rendered string at the first-floor level, with irregular sash windows. Inside, there is a late 17th to early 18th-century staircase with turned balusters, accessed from the right side of the archway, serving this wing of the building. The north side of the courtyard has been rebuilt, while the rest retains its timber frame, brick, and old tile roof. The Kings Head Hotel is part of a group with Nos 5 to 9 (odd).