Kings Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1974. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
Kings Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- fading-vault-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1974
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Kings Head Hotel, 10, Mercer Row, Louth, LN11 9JQ
- OS grid reference
- TF 327 872
- Coordinates
- 53.36589, -0.00607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Hotel is a late 17th century and 18th century building with a 19th century front, located on Mercer Row. It is two storeys tall and features a Gothic style façade that includes two canted two-storey Gothic bay windows with mullions. The central entrance has a four-centred headed door flanked by octagonal columns. Above the door, there is a cornice and an enriched parapet. To the right, there is a three-storey section that has a two-storey canted Gothic oriel bay extending from the first floor. Under the second-floor windows, there are panels with shields. The building has a coped gable adorned with octagonal pinnacles and a quatrefoil band below the top of the gable. To the left, there is a traditional courtyard with a long range in brick. The King's Head Hotel is part of a group that includes Nos 4 to 14 (even).
Local climate
Kings Head Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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