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Latitude: 51.2149 / 51°12'53"N
Longitude: -0.7994 / 0°47'57"W
OS Eastings: 483955
OS Northings: 146877
OS Grid: SU839468
Mapcode National: GBR DB3.NQZ
Mapcode Global: VHDY2.3Q8H
Plus Code: 9C3X6672+X7
Entry Name: 8 and 9 (The Queens Head), the Borough
Listing Date: 29 December 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1044707
English Heritage Legacy ID: 290803
ID on this website: 101044707
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/09/2014
SU 8346 NE
5/115
THE BOROUGH (north west side)
Number 8, and Number 9 (The Queen's Head)
(Formerly listed as No 8 [Premises of Speed, Tobacconist] and No 9 [Queen's Head Inn])
GV
II
Number 8 comprises an early C19 front of 1 bay to older building. Stucco with rusticated ground floor treatment, cornice string at 1st floor level. Plain frieze and cornice, forming a parapet, with nipped old tile roof. 1 window with surround of architrave frieze and cornice on 1st floor and one window with half-glazed door to left hand on ground floor.
The Queen's Head comprises an early C19 and later C19 front to a much earlier timber-framed core. 3 storey. Brick string at 2nd floor level. Eaves cornice. Hipped slate roof. 3 windows on 2nd floor. 2 3-light and central single window on 1st floor, 2 windows (poor C19) on ground floor, and central 6-panel door, upper panels, glazed, in surround of panelled pilasters, entablature broken forward over pilasters, and pediments. Small secondary door to right hand.
Nos 1 to 9 (consec) (including No 1A), and Nos 1 to 6 Town Hall Buildings (The Borough), Nos 1 and 77 Castle Street, the listed buildings from Nos 108 to 122 (consec) West Street, all form a group.
Listing NGR: SU8395946881
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