Kings Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Inn. 4 related planning applications.
Kings Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-belfry-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Kings Head Hotel, Market Place, Allendale, NE47 9BD
- OS grid reference
- NY 837 559
- Coordinates
- 54.89759, -2.25493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Head Hotel is an inn dating from the early 18th century that has been altered over time. It is constructed of rubble with tooled dressings and features a slate roof with stone gable stacks. The building is rectangular in shape, with a rear wing that includes a first-floor ballroom above what was once stabling.
The front of the hotel has three storeys and two windows. A central six-panelled door is set within a decorative overlight and is surrounded by a rusticated frame, with 20th-century windows on either side. The first floor has 20th-century windows in older openings, which have projecting lintels and sills, while the second floor features altered sash windows with tooled lintels and sills. The gable of the rear wing includes a canted bay with sash windows. The left side of the building has a blocked segmental-headed carriage entrance, two large 16-pane sash windows on the first floor, and two 12-pane sash windows on the second floor.
Inside, the first floor contains two early 18th-century fireplaces and an altered 18th-century staircase with a moulded handrail. The function room, which was formerly the ballroom in the rear wing, boasts a fine 18th-century fireplace and a plaster cornice decorated with flowers and foliage.
Local climate
Kings Head Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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