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Queens Head, Chester-le-Street
The Queen's Head is set back off Front Street in Chester-le-Street. Built as a coaching inn, the building dates from the early to mid 18th Century, at a time when Front Street formed part of the Great North Road from London to Edinburgh. The Queen's Head is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England.
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QUEENS HEAD HOTEL - Chester-le-Street - List Entry
- "Hotel. Early-mid C18. Painted roughcast brick, Welsh slate roof and rebuilt brick chimney stack.
3 storeys, 6 bays. Raised-and-chamfered quoins. Off-centre 6-panel door in wood doorcase with Roman Ionic columns, …
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Simon Cotterill
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The Queens Head hotel in Chester-le-Street
- Photo by John Blackburne, 23 February 2010, c/o Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Added by
Pat Thomson
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QUEENS HEAD HOTEL - Chester-le-Street - List Entry
- "Hotel. Early-mid C18. Painted roughcast brick, Welsh slate roof and rebuilt brick chimney stack.
3 storeys, 6 bays. Raised-and-chamfered quoins. Off-centre 6-panel door in wood doorcase with Roman Ionic columns, …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/QueensHead.jpg/1599px-QueensHead.jpg)
from https://commons.wikimedia.org…
The Queens Head hotel in Chester-le-Street
- Photo by John Blackburne, 23 February 2010, c/o Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Added by
Pat Thomson