Kings Head is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1966. Public house. 8 related planning applications.
Kings Head
- WRENN ID
- narrow-chimney-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1966
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Kings Head, 40, Market Place, Bedale, DL8 1EQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 266 881
- Coordinates
- 54.28815, -1.59188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Head is a public house located in Bedale Market Place, dating from the early to mid 18th century. It is constructed of brick, rendered, and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has three storeys and four bays. At the base, there is a cement plinth. The second bay from the left contains a four-panel door with an overlight and side glazing bars, framed by a doorcase with pilasters, consoles, a frieze, and a cornice. This door is flanked by 19th-century canted bays that have stone cills, with central sashes featuring 4 panes and side sashes with 2 panes, all adorned with friezes and cornices. The right-hand bay includes a carriage entrance, which has a wooden surround with plinths, pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice.
On the first floor, there are 16-pane sash windows with stone cills, while the second floor features 20th-century casements, except for the second bay from the right, which is blind; all windows have stone cills. The building is topped with stone coping and has end stacks. Inside, the first floor boasts a Jacobean-style chimney piece dated 'WW 1690', which includes an architrave with two heads and a shield below the mantelshelf, flanked by pilasters topped with male heads and a large coat of arms.
Local climate
Kings Head receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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