Kings Head Hotel

The Kings Head Hotel is a hotel dating from around 1860, likely designed by Medland and Maberly. It is constructed of painted stucco with a Welsh slate roof, and has rendered brick end and ridge stacks, the right-hand stack losing its top section.

The building is three storeys and an attic, with a five-window front. The first floor has five 2/2 sash windows with segmental arched heads, set within shouldered architraves that feature keystones carved as kings' heads. The second floor has a similar arrangement of five 2/2 sash windows, but without keystones. The ground floor features three 2/2 sash windows with moulded architraves and an egg-and-dart outer moulding, stone cills, and panelled aprons. A pair of 8-panel doors with a leaded fanlight are housed within a pilastered doorcase topped with a round-headed panelled hood and moulded edge. To the far right, a segmental-headed opening with a matching architrave and a keystone modelled as a king's head provides access to a through passage to the rear. Five barrel-roofed dormers are present, each with a 2-pane tilting window within a round-headed moulded architrave with a shaped keystone. Pilaster strips run along the left and right angles: rusticated at ground floor level, panelled on the first and second floors, and terminated by carved console brackets with lions' heads on blocks and pointed finials. A plinth has a moulded top, and a moulded cill band to the first floor breaks forward to form four panelled window boxes, each supported on three carved console brackets beneath four windows to the left. A moulded cill band is also present to the second floor. A modillion eaves cornice tops the building.

The interior includes a mid-19th century staircase with elaborate cast-iron bracketed balusters, shaped cheekpieces, and a mahogany grip handrail. On the first floor, the front left room contains a run cornice and a damaged plaster arch on square pilasters; no fireplace is present. The ballroom on the second floor at the rear is a large room with a segmental-arched ceiling featuring decorative plasterwork including panelled Ionic pilasters, a frieze with paterae and fluting, and panelled strips across the ceiling. This plasterwork is thought to be from the mid-19th century, with 20th-century alterations.