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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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