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The Kings Head was situated at 85 Bridge Street. This grade-II listed pub was later known as Dirty Nellys and Jumping Jax.
Source: Gary Knox
Listed building details:
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.
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