NHER 31874 (Building record) - Kings Head Inn, White Hart Street

King's Head Inn, Nos. 27-29 White Hart Street. Listed 1971, grade II.
Coaching inn. Early C18, re-skinned to façade 1878. Flint with brick dressings. Painted gault brick façade. Pantile roof. Façade of 2 storeys and dormer attic but indeterminate number of bays. 4 doorways, 3 under C20 gabled hoods. Towards right (north) end is a tall square-headed carriageway to rear, lined with flint. Ground-floor fenestration consists of one C20 casement right of carriageway, and to left two 2-light cross casements and 4 sashes with 6/6 glazing bars and no horns. First floor has one unhorned and 3 horned 6/6 sashes. To extreme north (right) is a C18 two-light casement. Secondary casement over carriageway. Gabled roof with 2 flat-topped dormers. 3 gault brick ridge stacks. Rear with contemporary outshut. Mixed fenestration includes two C18 three-light casements (ground floor), one swivel window and one horizontal-sliding sash (first floor). Inserted doors and C20 windows. 2 additional stacks to outshut.
INTERIOR: chamfered bridging beams to ground floor, boxed bridging beams at first floor. Some 2-panel doors, and a plank door to attic. C18 roof of commons only, lower tier of through purlins, upper tier of purlins clasped by C20 plank collars.
See (S1) for further details.

Outbuildings in yard of numbers 27 and 29 White Hart Street, King's Head Inn. Listed 1971, grade II.
Stables, now storeroom. Late C18 altered late C20. Flint plinth with brick dressings with an upper floor of coursed clunch. Pantile roof. 2 storeys. South front now with a C20 sliding door replacing row of stable doors. Door to right gives access to hay-loft which has 2 plank loading doors and a slatted ventilation window. Dentil eaves cornice under a gabled roof. West gable rebuilt in brick late C20. INTERIOR: plain bridging beams and joists.
See (S1) for further details.

July 1996. Field Observation.
Listed as former coaching inn, early 18th century, façade rebuilt 1878.
Flint and brick with painted gault brick façade, two storeys and dormers. Carriage arch to right. Windows a mixture of 18th and 20th century. Original outshut to rear. Interior has some chamfered bridging beams, and plank door to attic. 18th century roof of commons alone with lower order of through purlins and upper tier of unstated purlins. Three gault stacks and two more on outshut. Bay north of carriage arch now a separate property, No.29; seen by E. Rose (NLA) 18 July 1996. Interior featureless except for part-exposed spine beam on first floor; spiral staircase in thickness of wall to arch (plan in file, S2). Wall to archway of flint with fossil quoins of reused stone to rear from height of 2m upwards; wall extended in flint a foot or so to join brick quoins of stables. Reused in ceiling of arch are some very interesting timbers with mortises. Attached to west of No.29, building listed separately as stables; south facade of clunch, brick openings with horizontal skintlings, and plaque dated 1780 (interesting in view of brickwork). West wall rebuilt with reused bricks. Many fragments of reused stonework in north wall.
E. Rose (NLA) 18 July 1996.