The King's Head is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1989. Public house.

The King's Head

WRENN ID
endless-column-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 1989
Type
Public house
Address
The King's Head, the Green, Kettlewell with Starbotton, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SD 970 723
Coordinates
54.14659, -2.04631
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The King's Head is a public house dating from the mid-18th century. It features rendered rubble with painted ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The building has three storeys and is arranged in a three by two bay configuration with a mansard roof. The central entrance is obscured by a 20th-century porch, which is not of special interest. Throughout the building, there are flat-faced mullion windows with raised surrounds; the first and third bays each have three lights on every floor, while the central door has two lights above it. The gables are adorned with shaped kneelers and corniced end stacks. On the right side, there is quoined rubble walling, and the rear range is an addition, featuring a small blocked round window on the first floor to the left.

Inside, there is a notable ashlar fireplace with a three-piece lintel that mimics voussoirs, located against the left gable wall. The right front room boasts a finely moulded cornice on the framed ceiling, and there is a staircase with knopped balusters at the rear center. The partition walls on the ground floor have been removed.

Local climate

The King's Head sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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