Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26293265

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair