The Unicorns Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Rushcliffe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1952. Public house. 4 related planning applications.

The Unicorns Head Public House

WRENN ID
crumbling-tallow-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rushcliffe
Constituency
Rushcliffe MP: James Naish (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 February 1952
Type
Public house
Address
The Unicorns Head Public House, Main Street, Langar Cum Barnstone, NG13 9HE
OS grid reference
SK 724 345
Coordinates
52.90375, -0.92476
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Unicorn's Head Public House is a brick building dating from 1717, located on Main Street in Langar cum Barnstone. It features a double depth plan and stands two storeys high under twin, steeply pitched plain-tile roofs with coped gables on square kneelers and end stacks. The near-symmetrical facade has three bays, with a 20th-century square brick porch at the front. On either side of the porch are tripartite 20th-century casement windows with shallow segmental heads. The first floor has two similar windows and a small single-light casement. A three-course brick band runs between the floors.

To the left of the main building is a later, lower, single-storey brew-house addition that has a tall three-stage reducing stack rising from the center of its front wall, featuring a blind arch at each stage. The rear of the main building also has three bays, with the ground floor obscured by a later porch. There is a tall central stair window and one bipartite casement window on each side at the first-floor level. A band runs across the twin left gables, and the rear gable displays the date 1717 in coloured brick. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Unicorns Head Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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