Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
85153
Building Number
7
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/08/2005
Date of Amendment
10/08/2005
Name of Property
The King's Head Hotel
Address
7 Agincourt Square
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Monmouth
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Monmouth
Easting
350767
Northing
212808
Street Side
SW
Location
In the town square in the centre of Monmouth.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
c1740 and built as The Monmouth Bank. It became a part of the King's Head Hotel late in the C19 but was probably still a bank in 1894 as it is dated LB (Lloyds Bank?) 1894 on the rainwater head. It is now the accommodation for the King's Head Hotel and runs across the upper floors of No. 8 also.
Exterior
Stucco fronted with rusticated quoins, floor-bands and key-blocks, roof not visible behind parapet. Four storeys with three semi-circular headed sash windows on ground floor and a doorway similar in a rusticated arcade with plain pilasters, W : W : D : W; the doorway is a late C20 insertion (it had no door in 1900 when already part of the hotel but the bank must have had one). Three 6 over 6 pane sashes on the next two floors above. The centre first floor one has an apron inscribed 'MONMOUTH' (presumably originally with 'BANK' below it); board below second floor windows 'THE KING'S HEAD HOTEL'. Three over 6 sashes on the third floor. Plain parapet, ornate down-pipe on right side with hopper lettered L B (Lloyds Bank).
The rear elevation of these buildings, visible from St. John's Street is confusing but demonstrates that they are built in the ditch of the castle outer bailey as there is an additional understorey on this side.
Interior
The interior has been drastically altered as a part of the modernisation of The King's Head by T J Weatherspoon in c1995. The ground floor is now a modern lobby and the staircase has been replaced. Upper floors not seen.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a well preserved Georgian style building in the Monmouth town centre.
Group Description
Nos.7 & 9 Agincourt Square
The street elevation is described from the left; it is in three sections, once separate properties.
Former Monmouth Bank (No. 7). This building appears to date from c1740. Stucco fronted with rusticated quoins, floor-bands and key-blocks, roof not visible behind parapet. Four storeys with three semi-circular headed sash windows on ground floor and a doorway similar in a rusticated arcade with plain pilasters, W : W : D : W; the doorway is a late C20 insertion (it had no door in 1900 when already part of the hotel but the bank must have had one). Three 6 over 6 pane sashes on the next two floors above. The centre first floor one has an apron inscribed 'MONMOUTH' (presumably originally with 'BANK' below it); board below second floor windows 'THE KING'S HEAD HOTEL'. Three over 6 sashes on the third floor. Plain parapet, ornate down-pipe on right side with hopper lettered L B (Lloyds Bank).
The King's Head building (No. 8). This is a C17 building, re-fronted in the C18 and with late C19 added gables. Rendered and painted with rusticated quoins and a Welsh slate roof. Three storeys and attic, two gables, five windows. Ground floor has two shallow bow windows and a central porch with two plain columns over pavement. Triple 6 over 6 pane sashes in the bows, and a small 4 over 4 one to the right. All 6 over 6 sashes with keyed heads and a band between on the next two floors. Gutter on timber brackets, gables with half-timbering and plain bargeboards, spike finial on left hand one; each gable has a 3 + 3 pane casement.
Former County Club (No. 9). This was built in 1875 and designed by T H Wyatt.
Rendered and painted with painted quoins and bands, Welsh slate roof. Two storeys and attic, single bay with gable over. The ground floor has two mullion-and-transom windows and, to the right, a plain door with slated hood. This doorway was a window until recent years but was originally a door. The first floor has a large canted oriel on timber brackets. This has a 1 + 3 + 1 mullion and transom window with slate hood and half-timbered apron decorated with quatrefoils. Half-timbered gable with a triple 2-pane casement.
The rear elevation of these buildings, visible from St. John's Street is confusing but demonstrates that they are built in the ditch of the castle outer bailey as there is an additional understorey on this side. The King's Head itself has a 3-bay elevation with giant Tuscan pilasters flanking triple sashes on two floors, then sidelights, blind on the left and further flanking pilasters; another small triple sash in the attic entablature,
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