Kings Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 May 1952. A Medieval Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Kings Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- hushed-brass-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Hotel
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Kings Head Hotel, 60 Cross Street, Abergavenny, NP7 5SD
- OS grid reference
- SO 299 141
- Coordinates
- 51.82177, -3.01785
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Kings Head Hotel is a three-storey building constructed from red sandstone rubble, faced in roughcast and painted above the ground floor. It has a double depth plan and features four windows, arranged as one on the left and three on the right. On the left side, there is a late medieval gothic arch made of dressed stone that provides access to a yard at the rear; this arch is believed to date from the 15th century and has a roll moulding with a steeply pointed shape. The three bays on the ground floor to the right, which include the entrance to the public house, have segmentally arched openings. These bays feature late 20th-century windows with transoms flanking a plain door. The original front was obscured by a more typical late 19th-century timber pub frontage with arched windows, which was recently revealed and tidied up. The upper floors previously had casement windows, but these have now been replaced with 6 over 6 pane sashes on the first floor, except for the left-hand window, which is 3 over 6 panes. The upper floor windows are all smaller and also feature 3 over 6 panes. The building has deep eaves and a low-pitched roof with brick stacks on either gable, one of which may serve No. 59. The rear elevation has not been inspected.
Inside, the ground floor is now a single bar space without any clearly datable features. The ceiling has a mixture of beams, some of which are stop-chamfered, but these are likely not original. There is also a stair at the right rear that appears to be a partly 18th-century design.
Local climate
Kings Head Hotel receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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