The Nags Head stood the other side of the Temperance Hotel to the Waggon & Horses.
The drawing indicates Georgian building, the first report I have as yet is in March 1819 when a horse dealer named Briggs who gained lodging for the night was found dead the following morning. Which would fit with the following record telling of a substantial property.
circa1805 “A large dining room, six sleeping rooms – including a soldiers’ room – malt room, stabling for forty horses. The Nags Head also provided boxes to accommodate 16 hunters or race horses during race week every September.” (T. Bone.)
Still recorded in directories in 1860s with Henry Gisborne as landlord.
Henry brewed his own ale, confirmed by a court case in 1860 when Samuel Waring was sentenced to 2 months hard labour for stealing a thermometer from the brew house.
Confusingly a Henry Gisbourne (surely the same) was to keep the Nags Head in Belgrave Gate around the same time.
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Was this the Nags Head yard as listed in 1861 census in parish of St Margaret’s Leicester?