Description

TAMWORTH

SK20SW WATLING STREET, Wilnecote
670-1/4/139 (North side)
09/11/72 Queen's Head Inn P.H.

II

Public house. C17, with possible earlier origins; late C18 and
C19 additions and C20 alterations. Brick with rendered stucco
front; tile roof with brick stacks. 2-unit plan with later
extensions. Single storey with attic; 3-window range with
2-window addition to left and single-storey addition to right.
Entrance to right of centre has porch with columns without
capitals and narrow entablature; 4-panel door. Windows have
rusticated wedge lintels and C20 small-paned casements; 3
dormers to attic have similar casements. End stacks and
cross-axial stack to left of entrance. Rear has early C19 and
late C19 gabled wings with end stacks. Interior: chamfered
spine beams to 2 ground floor rooms with possible base of
cruck between; cellar reported as having beam; evidence of
possible cruck construction obscured by C20 alterations.

Listing NGR: SK2277601219

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503882

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)