Listed Building: KING'S HEAD HOTEL (363000)

NEWMARKET 1. 828 (East Side) King's Head Hotel TM 429O 2/61 II GV 17th and 18th century with alterations. This was a coaching inn, and until comparatively recently the central archway, now the main entrance to the lounge, was open and led through a cobbled yard with galleries round to the yard at the back. The 17th century portion is 2 storeys and attic. 3 gabled dormers with barge boards. Thin brick. Sashes, in flush frames, with glazing bars and flat arches. Plaster cove cornice with bed mould. Plain tiles. Stack with 6 octagonal detached flues, with base moulds and united at capping. Modern door in original wood case with architrave frieze and cornice. The 18th century parts flank the earlier, 1 window west and 2 windows east, 3 storeys red brick, the attic floor enclosed by screen wall on main cornice above pilasters. This treatment continued, on return front facing Newmarket, 5 windows with central entrance. Rusticated quoins. Moulded brick cornice. Slate roof. Sashes with flush frames, flat arches with stone keys. Elliptical central arch over entrance with rustications and stone key. Modern door. Altered interior retains some early features including hewn chamfered beams. Part of a group with No 2: also a group with "Wine Shop" and No 8. Newmarket forms a most important central group including the buildings around and in the "island'. Listing NGR: TM4218890378