Kings Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Kings Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- iron-wall-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Kings Head Hotel, Altarnun, PL15 7RX
- OS grid reference
- SX 225 807
- Coordinates
- 50.59923, -4.50887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Head Hotel is a public house, likely built in the mid-18th century. It features stone rubble construction that is painted and rendered on the front, with rag slate hanging on the left and left-hand wing. The front range has a slate mansard roof, with the front slope coated in bitumen, and a lower slate roof with a gable end on the left-hand wing. The building has an overall 'L' shaped plan; the front range consists of a two-room and passage layout, with the entrance located to the left of center. The larger room is on the right and the smaller room is on the left, both heated by end stacks. The rear wing to the left has at least a two-room plan.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front. The entrance is to the left of center, flanked by a twelve-pane sash window on the left and a twenty-pane sash window on the right. There are three twelve-pane sashes on the first floor. The rear wing features 19th and 20th-century windows, with a 18th-century casement window on the left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Kings Head Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 transaction since 2003
- 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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