Queens Head Hotel

The Queen's Head Hotel is an early to mid-18th century building located on Front Street in Chester-le-Street. It features painted roughcast brick, a Welsh slate roof, and a rebuilt brick chimney stack. The hotel has three storeys and six bays, with raised-and-chamfered quoins. The entrance is an off-centre six-panel door set in a wooden doorcase adorned with Roman Ionic columns, dosserets, and a dentilled segmental pediment. The windows are margined sashes within raised surrounds that have projecting sills and are topped with wooden dripmoulds on the ground floor, while the second floor has small square openings. The building also has a chamfered eaves band and a steeply-pitched hipped roof with slightly-swept eaves, topped by a central ridge stack. There are 20th-century rear additions that are not of special interest.