Home > Durham > Barnard Castle > Kings Head Kings Head
	Click above photo to expand		Picture source: Hania Franek
The Kings Head was situated at 14 Market Place. Charles Dickens stayed here on the 1st & 2nd February 1838 while collecting material for novel 'Nicholas Nickleby'. The grade-II listed pub has now been converted to a care home.
Listed building details:
Hotel, now rest home. Late C19. Thin courses of squared stone with rusticated plinth, ashlar quoins and dressings; roof of Welsh slate with stone gable coping and stone chimneys. 3 storeys; 4-window range. 8-panel door at left with blocked semicircular overlight. Ashlar ground floor between plinth and impost string which links doors and windows and supports keyed round heads to door at left and to paired windows, and elliptical vehicle arch at right. Plain sashes throughout, paired in inner bays, in stone surrounds with brackets to sill-string. First-floor heads are keyed low segmental arches with impost string; second-floor heads are straight and abut eaves. Eaves gutter cornice on corbels between windows. Roof has gable copings on corbelled kneelers. Tall, corniced ridge chimneys at ends and between bays.
Do you have any anecdotes, historical information, updates or photos of this pub? Become a contributor by submitting them here. Like this site? Follow us on Make email contact with other ex-customers and landlords of this pub by adding your details to this page.
Other Photos
Date of photo: 2012		Picture source: Peter Clarke