Building record 1272900000 - QUEEN'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, WHIELDEN LANE

Grade II. C18. Two storeys. Red brick with some grey headers. Moulded brick cornice. Old tile roof; 3 casements. Ground floor with cambered arches and first floor windows with Gothic pattern glazing bars. Side windows 3-light, central 2-light. Moulded central bracketted door hood. One window 2 storey wing on left. Stack at right and between wing and earlier bays (B1).
The tenement was formerly known as Cokes, from an early sixteenth-century owner. The building is faced in brickwork of the early nineteenth century, but the downstairs bearer beams have ogee stops belonging to the first half of the seventeenth. The upper floor was wholly rebuilt at the time of the refronting. To this period also belongs the northern bay, originally a stable. The north stack may be slightly earlier. The remaining two bays formed a two-unit house with a stack in the south gable. The two ground-floor rooms were each 15' x 13' (4.75 x 3.99 m). Since the house does not appear in the Hearth Tax returns it presumably had only one hearth, and if so was of only 1 1/2 storeys. The present house may be dated to 1613, when Richard
Wilkinson is recorded in the subsidy roll, or to some other date before 1629 when it became Matthew Carter's property. The former is perhaps to be preferred. [Details of recorded owners and tennants](B2).