Old Queens Head Public House is a Grade II* listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1952. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Old Queens Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- patient-eave-vale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1952
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Old Queens Head Public House, 40, Pond Hill, S1 2BG
- OS grid reference
- SK 358 872
- Coordinates
- 53.38095, -1.46308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Queen's Head Public House, formerly known as Hall i' th' Ponds, is a building located on Pond Hill in Sheffield. It dates back to around 1475 and has undergone mid and late 19th century and 20th century additions, with restoration in the mid-20th century. The front range is timber-framed with rendered nogging, brick, and dressed stone gables, topped by a steeply pitched slate roof featuring two rendered gable stacks. The rear additions are rendered and have hipped slate roofs along with a single rendered gable stack.
The exterior of the front block is two storeys high with a two-window range. The first floor has close studding with a coved jetty and eaves, and features two large three-light glazing bar casements. The ground floor showcases figure-carved posts and a carved bressumer, although the original studs have been replaced with rendered infill panels. To the right, there is a recessed 19th-century door, flanked on the left by a paired plain sash window and on the right by an altered cross casement. The left gable has dressed stone at the ground floor, showing the tops of two posts and a renewed bressumer. Above this, there are two large three-light glazing bar casements, and below, to the left, is a 19th-century Tudor arched door. To the right, there is a 19th-century cross casement and a small two-light mullioned window.
A three-storey rear addition features a first-floor sill band and a 16-pane sash window, with a 12-pane sash above it. Both of these windows have multi keystone lintels, and below, there is another 16-pane sash. To the left, there is a canted corner with a blocked door. At the rear, a late 19th-century addition has been reduced to a single storey with a flat roof and includes three 16-pane sash windows.
Inside, the ground floor has three figure-carved posts and may contain additional timber framing and roof structures.
Local climate
Old Queens Head Public House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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