The King's Head Public House London, England
Listed Building Data
The King's Head Public House has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1252344
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 17 March 1975
- Name
- THE KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE
- Location
- THE KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 49, CHISWELL STREET
- District
- City and County of the City of London
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 32458 81948
- Easting
- 532457.5370
- Northing
- 181948.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
The following buildings shall be added:
CHISWELL STREET TQ3281NW 635-1/78/236 (South West side) 17/03/75 No.49 The King's Head public house
GV II
Public house. Late C19. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, dressings of gauged red brick and stucco, roof of slate. Four storeys over basement, curved elevation to corner site with four windows to Chiswell Street, one to corner and two to Whitecross Street. The ground floor has a pilaster to the east end in Chiswell Street supporting a fascia stop and flanking a short stretch of rusticated stucco; the other end in Whitecross Street has the rusticated stucco and fascia stop without the pilaster; fascia and modillion cornice between, with a wooden pub front which appears to be a late C20 reproduction of a late C19 pub front. First- and second-floor windows segmental-arched with moulded stucco architraves, attached cornices and keystones, the keystones to first floor having festoons, the second-floor windows having panelled aprons flanked by consoles. Quoins of gauged red brick to either end of the facade, the corner windows flanked by panels of gauged red brick alternately long and short in imitation of quoins and by sunk panels of one brick's width. Storey band of gauged red brick above second floor, modillion cornice and blocking course; mansard roof with two pedimented dormers to Chiswell Street and one to Whitecross Street, that to the corner segmental-arched with moulded stucco architrave and pediment; fish-scale slates to mansard roof; ridge stack to Whitecross Street. INTERIOR: has late C19 bar front and bar back, possibly not complete or in their original positions. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).
Listing NGR: TQ3245981948
