Kings Head Hotel
KINGS HEAD HOTEL, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041340
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS HEAD HOTEL, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041340
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS HEAD HOTEL, BRIDGE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS HEAD HOTEL, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blyth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 31812 81576
Details
BLYTH BRIDGE STREET NZ 3181 NE (North side) 10/31 Kings Head Hotel GV II Hotel, late C19. Brick with ashlar front; Welsh slate roof with red tile cresting. 3 storeys, 7 windows, symmetrical. Ground floor has moulded plinth, sill and impost strings with channeled rustication above up to Greek key frieze and dentil cornice: central fielded-panel door with overlight in stone doorcase with pedimented hood, flanked by broad elliptical-arched windows with smaller round-headed windows in end bays. Upper floors have giant Ionic Order with garland frieze and dentil cornice: plate-glass sashes in architraves, those to 1st floor with alternating segmental and triangular pediments. Block rustication to jambs of doorway and 1st floor windows, and archivolts of ground floor windows. Parapet with pilasters, moulded coping and knobbed urn finials; raised centre part with hotel name and swan-necked pediment framing a bust.
Listing NGR: NZ3181281576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235995
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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