Kings Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. Hotel. 5 related planning applications.
Kings Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- buried-buttress-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1966
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Kings Head Hotel, Market Place, Masham, HG4 4EF
- OS grid reference
- SE 225 806
- Coordinates
- 54.22125, -1.656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Head Hotel is a hotel built in the early to mid 18th century. It features coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. The building has seven bays and stands three storeys tall, with quoins at the corners. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door with an overlight, all set within a moulded stone surround. The ground and first floors have four-pane sash windows, while the second floor contains twelve-pane side-sliding sashes, except for the central window, which has four panes. All windows are framed with plain surrounds. The building is topped with shaped kneelers and ashlar coping, and it has end stacks as well as two ridge stacks.
Local climate
Kings Head Hotel receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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