{{About|a pub in Sheffield|a similarly named pub in London|The Old Queens Head}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox building |name = Old Queen's Head |image = Old Queen's Head Pub.jpg |image_size = |image_alt = <!-- or | alt = --> |image_caption = West front of the Old Queen's Head |pushpin_map = Sheffield |pushpin_map_alt = |map_caption = Location in Sheffield |former_names = The Hall at the Ponds |etymology = |status = |building_type = pub |architectural_style = Vernacular Tudor |classification = |location = Sheffield, South Yorkshire |address = 40 Pond Hill, S1 2BG |location_city = Sheffield |location_country = England |coordinates = |altitude = |current_tenants = |namesake = |est_completion = 1475 |opened_date = |renovation_date = |owner = Thwaites Brewery |landlord = |affiliation = |architectural = |structural_system = |material = timber frame |size = |floor_count = |floor_area = |awards = |designations = Grade II* listed |known_for = |website = [https://www.wjspubgroup.com/old-queens-head.html The Old Queens Head] |references = |footnotes = }}
The '''Old Queen's Head''' is a pub at 40 Pond Hill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is a 15th-century timber framed building and the oldest surviving domestic building in Sheffield.{{sfn|Harman|Minnis|2004|p=152}} It is now Grade II* listed.<ref name=NHLE>{{NHLE |num=1247088 |desc=Old Queens Head Public House |grade=II* |access-date=18 June 2017}}</ref>
==History== The Old Queens Head was built {{circa|1475}}.<ref name=NHLE/> 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"{{sfn|Hunter|1819|p=13}} or "Hall i' th' Ponds".<ref name=NHLE/>
As a part of the Earl's estate, the building may have been a banqueting hall for parties hunting wildfowl in the nearby ponds.<ref>{{harvnb|Olive|1994|p=}}{{page needed|date=June 2017}}</ref> 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.
[[File:Sheffield OldQueensHead north window.jpg|thumb|19th-century sash window on the north side of the building]] 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.<ref>{{harvnb|Olive|1994|p=}}{{page needed|date=June 2017}}</ref> Late in the 19th century, alterations and additions were made to the rear of the building.<ref name=NHLE/>
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 was later controlled by Thwaites Brewery,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.oldqueenshead.com/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20021126202406/http://www.oldqueenshead.com/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= 26 November 2002 |title=The Old Queens Head |publisher=Thwaites Brewery |access-date=18 June 2017}}</ref> and {{as of|2024|lc=yes}} it is part of the WJS Pub Group.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wjspubgroup.com/locations.html |title=25+ Locations Ready to Serve You Across The UK |date=n.d. |publisher=WJS Pub Group |access-date=16 December 2024}}</ref>
==See also== *Listed buildings in Sheffield
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== *{{cite book |last1=Harman |first1=R. |last2=Minnis |first2=J. |year=2004 |title=Sheffield |series=Pevsner City Guides |place=New Haven & London |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=0-300-10585-1 |page=152 }} *{{cite book |last=Hunter |first=Joseph |year=1819 |chapter=The Township of Sheffield |title=Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York |page=193 |place=London |publisher=Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor & Jones }} *{{cite book |last=Olive |first=Martin |year=1994 |chapter=The Ponds |series=Images of England |title=Central Sheffield |pages=31, 50 |place=Stroud |publisher=Tempus Publishing |isbn=0-7524-0011-8 }} *{{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |author-link1=Nikolaus Pevsner |last2=Radcliffe |first2=Enid (revision) |year=1967 |orig-year=1959 |title=Yorkshire the West Riding |series=The Buildings of England |place=Harmondsworth |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=0-14-071017-5 |pages=456–457 }}
==External links== {{Commons category|Old Queen's Head, Sheffield}} *{{cite web |url= http://www.velka-britanie.co.uk/anglicke-hospody |title=Představuji vám The Old Queens Head |work=Jdeme do hospody |date=15 January 2014 |publisher=Velká Británie OnlineMagazin |language=cs}}
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