King's Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
King's Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- kindled-flint-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- King's Head Hotel, High Street, Awre, GL15 4EB
- OS grid reference
- SO 671 069
- Coordinates
- 51.76038, -2.47781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Hotel is a late 18th-century hotel, formerly a coaching inn, situated on the south side of High Street in Blakeney. The building is constructed of painted rubble with a Welsh slate roof. It is a free-standing structure with single-storey modern extensions to the front. The front elevation has two storeys and an attic, featuring three windows at ground floor level, all of which are new. The first floor displays two sash windows without bars, a keystone to the lintol, and a central Venetian window with glazing bars under stone lintols and an arch with a central keystone. A small, modern dormer is present. A modern door is centrally located.
Local climate
King's Head Hotel receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 2021
- 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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