Old_Queen's_Head,_Sheffield
Old Queen's Head
Pub in Sheffield, United Kingdom
The Old Queen's Head is a pub at 14 Pond Hill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is a 15th-century timber framed building and the oldest surviving domestic building in Sheffield.[1] It is now Grade II* listed.[2]
| Old Queen's Head | |
|---|---|
West front of the Old Queen's Head | |
| Former names | The Hall at the Ponds |
| General information | |
| Type | pub |
| Architectural style | Vernacular Tudor |
| Location | Sheffield, South Yorkshire |
| Address | 40 Pond Street, S1 2BG |
| Town or city | Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Estimated completion | 1475 |
| Owner | Thwaites Brewery |
| Technical details | |
| Material | timber frame |
| Designations | Grade II* listed |
| Website | |
| The Old Queens Head | |
The Old Queens Head was built c. 1475.[2] However, the earliest known written record of the building is in a 1582 inventory of the estate of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury that included the furnishings of this building, which was then called "The hawle at the Poandes"[3] or "Hall i' th' Ponds".[2]
As a part of the Earl's estate, the building may have been a banqueting hall for parties hunting wildfowl in the nearby ponds.[4] These ponds, which formed in the area where the Porter Brook meets the River Sheaf, are now gone, but gave rise to the local names Pond Street, Pond Hill (formerly Pond Well Hill), and Ponds Forge.
By the beginning of the 19th century the building was being used as a house. In 1840 a pub called the Old Queen's Head was opened in the building next door. Sometime after 1862 the pub expanded into the former Hall i' th' Ponds.[5] Late in the 19th century, alterations and additions were made to the rear of the building.[2]
The Queen in the pub's current name is likely to refer to Mary, Queen of Scots, who was imprisoned in Sheffield from 1570 to 1584.
The building has been Grade II* listed since 1952. It was refurbished in 1993 when it was controlled by the Tom Cobleigh pub company. It is now controlled by Thwaites Brewery.[6]
- Harman & Minnis 2004, p. 152.
- Historic England. "Old Queens Head Public House (Grade II*) (1247088)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
- Hunter 1819, p. 13.
- "The Old Queens Head". Thwaites Brewery. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
- Harman, R.; Minnis, J. (2004). Sheffield. Pevsner City Guides. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 152. ISBN 0-300-10585-1.
- Hunter, Joseph (1819). "The Township of Sheffield". Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor & Jones. p. 193.
- Olive, Martin (1994). "The Ponds". Central Sheffield. Images of England. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. pp. 31, 50. ISBN 0-7524-0011-8.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Radcliffe, Enid (revision) (1967) [1959]. Yorkshire the West Riding. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 456–457. ISBN 0-14-071017-5.
- "The Old Queens Head". Thwaites Brewery.
- "Představuji vám The Old Queens Head". Jdeme do hospody (in Czech). Velká Británie OnlineMagazin. 15 January 2014.