Queen's Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1972. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
Queen's Head Inn
- WRENN ID
- open-pewter-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1972
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Queen's Head Inn, Bridge Street, Kington, HR5 3DW
- OS grid reference
- SO 298 565
- Coordinates
- 52.20303, -3.02804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queen's Head Inn is a building with an early 20th-century facade built onto a 17th-century core. The front of the building is roughcast with a Welsh slate roof and brick stacks to the front left and rear. A substantial rubble stack is also present to the rear right. The front has two storeys and a cellar, and features a four-window facade. The windows are mostly 2/2 casements. The front features a 20th-century inn front with a central half-glazed door and screens, a four-light window to the right, and two late 19th-century 6/6 sash windows in broad beaded cases to the left, alongside a curved light in the left return. The front is finished with a moulded fascia-board on fluted pilasters.
The right-returned side has roughcast and a 19th-century three-light metal casement, above a window with broad glazing bars. The rear pitch has large purlins. The left-returned side displays a dressed stone buttress stack, a 19th-century 2/2 casement, and an 18th-century 6/6 sliding sash window in box framing. A blocked light with a span-arch head is found in the gable, along with a 20th-century door within an 18th-century fluted wooden case. All windows on the left return side are 19th century. The rear wing features 17th-century box framing on a rubble plinth and has paired 18th-century 6/6 sliding sashes. A weatherboarded gable is present at the rear.
Local climate
Queen's Head Inn receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2001
- 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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