NHER 30593 (Building record) - Queens Head, No 2 Bridewell Street

December 1950. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Public house. Early 17, probably 1616, range one room deep. Various extensions. Restored and altered 1989. Timber-framed with black glazed pantiles to front, concrete pantiles and corrugated tiles to rear. Baffle-entry plan. Rendered and colourwashed. Two storeys and dormer attic in four irregular bays. Two doorways, that to right blocked...Bell-based gabled roof with two inserted gabled dormers. Central ridge stack and internal gable-end stack, both 19th century and both with twin diamond flues. At rear an early 19th-century two-storeyed brick ballroom extends south from east end.
INTERIOR. Thin scantling frame. Bressumer of west fireplace with sunk-quadrant mouldings. Roll-moulded bridging beam to west end, and other, chamfered, beams. Frame with jowled principal studs carrying straight braces to tie beams (one pair of arched braces also). Corner tension braces. Roof of two tiers butt purlins and cambered collars. Ballroom details largely 1989."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
E. Rose (NLA), 3 May 1994. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 March 2022.