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Kings Head

 

Picture source: David Gray


 
The Kings Head was situated on the High Street. This grade-II listed pub is now in residential use.
 
This was a Soames Brewery pub that was sold to Steward & Patteson in 1949.  
Adam Cartwright (October 2012)
 

 
Listed building details:
Former public house, now house. Early C16, 1599, cross wing 1661, major alterations in Fen Artisan Mannerist style, with C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick in English bond, ashlar dressings and stucco, with pantile roof over thatch. Raised brick coped gables with corbelled out kneelers, single axial triple stack with diagonally set shafts with dentillated tops. T-plan, of hall block with gabled cross wing of 1599. Originally Lobby
entry. 2 storey with garret, 5 bay front, the right hand bay advanced and gabled. Ashlar plinth. Single brick and stucco bands, dogtooth eaves course raised to a dentillated course early C20. Rusticated brick quoins. Off-centre panelled double doors with plain overlight in added square porch with flat roof. To left 2 margin light sashes and to right a similar window, all with rusticated brick reveals and cambered heads. Original door now blocked also has rusticated reveals and a pedimented brick head, containing an ashlar panel carved with a lion rampant. To first floor are 2 margin light sashes flanked by shorter brick pilasters. To the right the moulded head only of a 4 light C16 brick mullioned window. In the gable an ashlar datestone 1599 with initials TW, and in the base of the principal stack a further datestone of 1661 and initials IW. To left gable are single blocked windows to each floor with brick surrounds, segmental heads and stepped up string courses. Interior retains C16 roll moulded bressumer to hall inglenook and chamfered beam
with pyramid stops. End room has cyma moulded beam with ogee stops. Trapped purl in pegged oak roof, with timber and reed partitions.
 

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Date of photo: 2017

Picture source: Simon