Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
18417
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/04/1997
Date of Amendment
25/04/1997
Name of Property
The King's Head Inn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bethesda
Town
Bangor
Locality
Bethesda
Easting
262249
Northing
366765
Street Side
S
Location
Situated in centre of Bethesda some 100m NW of Capel Bethesda in terraced row.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Mid C19 public house, possibly of c1840-50.
Exterior
Whitewashed roughcast with painted stucco dressings, slate roof, and corniced right end rendered stack. Two storeys and attic, three-window range of horned 12-pane sashes in plain stucco eared surrounds. Similar surround to C20 centre door and overlight. Raised plinth, heavily moulded timber eaves cornice, returned at right end and treated as cornice of an entablature, the frieze below with KING'S HEAD HOTEL in raised capitals over a thin base moulding. Two dormers in roof with small-paned casement pairs, timber cornices and lead-clad shallow hipped roofs. Slate-hung sides. Rendered right end wall.
Interior
Reason for designation
An early Victorian inn frontage with bold cornice and good lettering.
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