Kings Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1971. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Kings Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- sharp-keystone-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1971
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Kings Head Hotel, 1 and 3, South Street, St. Neots, PE19 2BW
- OS grid reference
- TL 183 602
- Coordinates
- 52.22758, -0.2691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Hotel, located at 1590 South Street, is a late 18th-century building that was altered in the early 19th century. It is two storeys high with dormers and was originally double-fronted with four windows. The hotel features a modern tiled roof and flat-topped dormers with cornices. The exterior is made of painted brick with a plain stucco band on the first floor and a fluted band below the small eaves cornice. The flush framed sash windows consist of three lights, although two have been reduced in size. The ground floor windows have simplified stucco voussoirs.
Number 1 has a notable mid-19th-century shopfront with pilasters supporting an entablature, a shop window with small panes and a panelled dado, and a shop doorway featuring arcaded fenestration and a fanlight. The doorway of Number 3 is topped with a bracketed hood. There is a carriageway at the south end with double panelled doors and a wrought iron signboard above the doorway. At the rear of Number 1, there is a half-timbered two-storey wing with painted brick nogging. The ground floor windows have margin lights, while the first floor features Yorkshire casements.
The King's Head Hotel is part of a group that includes Nos 1, 3, 11, 13, Smithy and Stables at the rear of Nos 15 and 17, and No 19, which collectively form a significant architectural ensemble with No 46 Market Street.
Local climate
Kings Head Hotel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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- 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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