- Old Queen's Head, Sheffield
The Old Queen's Head is a
public house on Pond Hill in the City of Sheffield,England that occupies the oldest domestic building in the cityref|Pevsner. This timber framed building is thought to date from c.1475ref|IOE, although the earliest known written record of it is in an inventory compiled in 1582 of the estate of George Talbot, the 6thEarl of Shrewsbury that included the furnishings of this building, which was then called "The hawle at the Poandes"ref|Hunter. As a part of the Earl's estate, it may have been used as a banqueting hall for parties hunting wildfowl in the nearbypond sref_label|Olive|4|a. These ponds, which formed in the area where thePorter Brook meets theRiver Sheaf , are now gone, but are commemorated in 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 residence. In 1840 a pub called the "Old Queen's Head" was opened in the neighbouring building, and sometime after 1862 the pub expanded into this buildingref_label|Olive|4|b. The building was given Grade II* listed status in 1952. The pub was refurbished in 1993, as part of the
Tom Cobleigh chain, but is now served by the Thwaites Brewery.The Queen in the pub's name is likely Mary, Queen of Scots who was imprisoned in Sheffield from 1570 to 1584.
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Listed buildings in Sheffield References
# Harman, R. & Minnis, J. (2004) "Pevsner City Guides: Sheffield." p152. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10585-1
# [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=2&id=456261 Old Queen's Head Public House.] "Images of England (accessed16 July 2005 —free registration required).
# Hunter, Joseph (1819). The Township of Sheffield. In "Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York", p193. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor & Jones. This book is out of print but can be purchased on [http://blunham.com/CDroms/Descriptions/Hallamshire.html CD-ROM]
#note_label|Olive|4|anote_label|Olive|4|b Olive, Martin (1994). The Ponds. In "Images of England: Central Sheffield", pp31–50. Stroud: Tempus Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7524-0011-8
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