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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 74 SE 220
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:THE KING'S HEAD HOTEL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1899


Grid Reference:TQ 7857 4302
Map Sheet:TQ74SE
Parish:STAPLEHURST, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1370 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1060725: THE KING'S HEAD HOTEL

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7843 (West side)
5/136 The King's Head Hotel (formerly listed as The 10.6.1971 King's Head Inn)
GV II
Public house. C16, with alterations of 1671, C18 and C19. Timber framed. Main range rendered; Chequered C18 or C19 red brick to ground floor of front of wing, banded plain and fishscale tiles to first floor, and applied framing to gable. Late C17 red and grey brick in English and Flemish bond to ground floor of left return elevation. Addition to rear of wing weatherboarded above a brick base. Main range of about 2 timber framed bays, with cross-wing, also of about 2 bays, projecting forwards slightly to left. 2 storeys and cellar. Coursed stone plinth to cross- wing, painted brick plinth to main range. Cross-wing with underbuilt jetties to front and left return. Wing gabled with slightly higher eaves. Roof of main range hipped to right with gablet, hip returning to right. Slender projecting red and grey brick stack to left side of wing, and brick stack in front slope of roof to left of centre of main range. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stack towards centre of rear addition. Irregular fenestration of two 16-pane sashes; one to wing, one towards right end of main range. Two 12-pane sashes to ground floor of wing, one 16-pane under stack, and tripartite sash towards right end. Half- glazed double doors up 4 steps with iron hand-rail to left end of main range, and half-glazed door up 5 steps, with pair of iron rails, to right end. Short gabled rear wing to right of main range. Date G E A 1671 in brick to left side of wing. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing to ground floor, with evidence for subdivision of wing. Moulded beams to main range.
Listing NGR: TQ7857343021
Formerly TQ 74 SE 28 (1)

A timber framed house with a formerly open 2-bay hall and 2-bay lower end cross wing. The latter was originally jettied at the front and external side. The upper end has been demolished. A rear range was added in the 17th century. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040422 KINGS HEAD HOTEL, STAPLEHURST File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/667 Labelled sheet of drawings of the King's Head Hotel, Staplehurst, with a floor plan, a crown-post elevation, and an arch brace profile


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.