The King's Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 1997. Coastguard cottage. 4 related planning applications.
The King's Head Inn
- WRENN ID
- tattered-alcove-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1997
- Type
- Coastguard cottage
- Address
- The King's Head Inn, Bethesda, Bangor, LL57 3AN
- OS grid reference
- SH 622 667
- Coordinates
- 53.18012, -4.06272
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The King's Head Inn is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a whitewashed roughcast exterior and painted stucco dressings. It has a slate roof and a corniced rendered stack at the right end. The front has a three-window range of horned 12-pane sash windows, each set in plain stucco eared surrounds. The central door, which is a 20th-century addition, also has a similar surround and an overlight above it. The building stands on a raised plinth and has a heavily moulded timber eaves cornice that returns at the right end, resembling the cornice of an entablature. Below this, the frieze displays "KING'S HEAD HOTEL" in raised capitals above a thin base moulding. There are two dormers in the roof, each with small-paned casement pairs, timber cornices, and shallow hipped roofs clad in lead. The sides of the building are slate-hung, while the right end wall is rendered.
Local climate
The King's Head Inn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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