King'S Head Hotel

NZ 05 SE CONSETT FRONT STREET

(South side) Shotley Bridge 5/66 (inset) King's Head Hotel GV II

Public House. Circa 1905. Painted render with painted ashlar dressings; roof of small graduated Lakeland slates. Free style, incorporating baroque and vernacular revival elements. 2-storey, 3-bay left part and 3-storey, 2-bay right part, with lower one-storey, one-bay set-back left extension. 3-bay part has 6-panelled double door under broken pediment in fanlight, in plain round-headed surround with long keystone. Similar keys with cornices to wide segmental-arched windows in outer bays, on sill string and labelled aprons. 5 sash windows above, most with upper glazing bars. Etched glass in ground-floor windows has art nouveau patterns and King's Head name; 2 ventilators inserted in upper windows. 2-bay part has double boarded doors at left, and boarded door at right, the right bay swung back at a slight angle. Sill bands to sashes with upper glazing bars, paired at left on first floor and at right, and 3 on second floor. Left part has canted left corner with keyed round-headed surround to 6-panel door and fanlight; sash window above. Set-back extension has boarded door and sash with glazing bars. Hipped roof has ogee-domed lead-covered lantern with ball and spike finial; tall battered chimneys, with cornice above batter, at left end of set-back, on left slope of main roof and at each end of 3-storey block, that at left with external stack on gable above 2-storey block.

Listing NGR: NZ0911852737