Kings Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1987. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.

Kings Head Hotel

WRENN ID
sleeping-cobble-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Country
England
Date first listed
15 July 1987
Type
Hotel
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Kings Head Hotel is a late 19th-century hotel located on Blyth Bridge Street. It is constructed of brick with an ashlar front and features a Welsh slate roof with red tile cresting. The building stands three storeys high and has seven windows arranged symmetrically.

The ground floor showcases a moulded plinth, sill, and impost strings, with channeled rustication leading up to a Greek key frieze and a dentil cornice. The central entrance consists of a fielded-panel door with an overlight, set within a stone doorcase that has a pedimented hood. This door is flanked by broad elliptical-arched windows, with smaller round-headed windows located in the end bays.

On the upper floors, there is a giant Ionic Order with a garland frieze and a dentil cornice. The windows are fitted with plate-glass sashes in architraves, with those on the first floor featuring alternating segmental and triangular pediments. The doorway and first-floor window jambs are accentuated with block rustication, and the ground floor windows have archivolts.

The parapet is adorned with pilasters, moulded coping, and knobbed urn finials, with a raised central section displaying the hotel name and a swan-necked pediment framing a bust.

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