Kings Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Kings Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- tall-spindle-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Kings Head Hotel, High Market Place, Kirkbymoorside, YO62 6AT
- OS grid reference
- SE 696 865
- Coordinates
- 54.27032, -0.93256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Head Hotel is a hotel dating from the mid-18th century, with earlier origins. It features hammer-dressed sandstone that is partially covered in creepers, set on a rubble plinth, and has a pantile roof with rebuilt brick stacks. The building has a three-cell, through-passage plan, with an earlier rear wing to the left. It is two stories high and has a four-window front, with chamfered quoins.
The entrance, located to the right of the center, is segmental-arched and includes voussoirs and quoined jambs, accessed by stone steps. The entrance has a 20th-century half-glazed partition, double doors, and a fanlight with glazing bars. There is a canted bay with sash windows at the left end, and throughout the building, there are 12-pane sashes with stone sills in flat, squared surrounds. The first floor is raised, and there is a cavetto-moulded eaves cornice. The gables are coped, with cyma recta moulded kneelers, and there are stacks at both ends and in the center.
Inside, there is a 17th-century re-used closed string, open well staircase with turned balusters located at the rear of the room to the left. Additionally, early 18th-century square panelling has been re-used in the bar to the right.
Local climate
Kings Head Hotel receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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