KINGS HEAD HOTEL - Blyth - List Entry

  • Description

    "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.....Parapet with pilasters, moulded coping and knobbed urn finials; raised centre part with hotel name and swan-necked pediment framing a bust...."
  • Owner

    Historic England
  • Source

    Local (Co-Curate)
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  • Further information

    Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1041340
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 2 years, 3 months ago
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