The King's Head

The King's Head is a 17th-century inn featuring two storeys and an attic, topped with a slate gabled roof. It has painted rendered chimneys on both the left and right, with the left chimney dating from the 17th century and having three shafts, the outer ones set diagonally and the centre shaft raised. The facade is painted rendered with a raised plinth. There are three small dormer windows with slate roofs, which have 20th-century fixed panes that replicate the diamond leaded panes seen in old photographs, along with fretted bargeboards.

On the first floor, there are three 9-pane hornless sash windows above a long slate hipped veranda, which features fish-scale slating and is supported by four square posts at the left and centre, with the right end infilled by triple 6-pane sashes. Below the middle window, there is a four-panel door, and to the left are two unaligned 9-pane hornless sashes. The right gable end facing Stone Street has a small 9-pane central attic window, a small 9-pane sash on the first floor to the right, and a ground floor 12-pane sash to the right of centre, all hornless.

To the right is a range that was formerly the Bank of the Black Ox, which is set at right angles and projects forward with a lower roof and a stack at the left end. The door is located in the gable end facing south, while the east front to the street has two storeys and four bays, featuring 12-pane hornless sashes. The right-hand window on the first floor is larger and sits above a square-headed open bay, which may have been a former coach-house or possibly a throughway. Access to the rear was not available at the time of the survey.

The ground floor has been significantly opened up, retaining stone piers from the original walls, squared beams, and joists. The front of the building has a flagstone floor, while the rear features quarry tiles. There is a large open dressed-stone fireplace with an oak lintel and canted sides located at the rear of the former front right room, which may indicate 16th-century origins. Additionally, there is a small fireplace at the right end and another fireplace with an oak lintel on the left-hand wall, which has an oven to its right. The 17th-century panelling that was recorded on the first floor was not available for inspection.