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1. 23 The Terrace, Queens Head, at one time renamed the Welcome
Home.

The Queens Head has been recorded as a public house since at least 1740.
However, this Grade II Listed Building is considerably older and probably
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dates to the early 15 century. What makes this building unique is its timber
frame, called a Cruck construction which in this case is basically of similar
appearance to a capital “A”. The long uprights are formed with a curved
trunk split along its centre and coupled together at the top. The strong shape
provided the framework onto which the roof was supported and alongside
which the walls were built. The use of the Cruck frame has been identified as
having a regional bias and Wokingham lies to the very edge of that area.
There are only seven buildings with this form of construction known in
Berkshire. For a short time in the 1870s and 1880s the pub was called the
Welcome Home, possibly due to the unpopularity of the queen for self-

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