King'S Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
King'S Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- peeling-pillar-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Hotel is a public house built around 1905. It features painted render with painted ashlar dressings and a roof made of small graduated Lakeland slates. The design is a free style that incorporates elements of baroque and vernacular revival architecture. The building is two stories tall on the left side with three bays, and three stories tall on the right side with two bays, along with a lower one-story, one-bay set-back extension on the left.
The three-bay section has a six-panel double door beneath a broken pediment with a fanlight, all set in a plain round-headed surround with a long keystone. There are similar keystones with cornices above the wide segmental-arched windows in the outer bays, which are situated on a sill string and have labelled aprons. Above, there are five sash windows, most of which feature upper glazing bars. The ground-floor windows have etched glass with art nouveau patterns and the name "King's Head," along with two ventilators inserted in the upper windows.
The two-bay section has double boarded doors on the left and a boarded door on the right, with the right bay angled slightly back. The sill bands of the sashes also have upper glazing bars, with paired windows on the first floor to the left and right, and three on the second floor. The left part of the building has a canted corner with a keyed round-headed surround for a six-panel door and fanlight, and a sash window above it. The set-back extension includes a boarded door and a sash window with glazing bars.
The hipped roof features an ogee-domed lead-covered lantern topped with a ball and spike finial. There are tall battered chimneys with a cornice above the batter located at the left end of the set-back, on the left slope of the main roof, and at each end of the three-story block, with the left chimney having an external stack on the gable above the two-story block.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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