The Kings Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1952. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Kings Head Inn
- WRENN ID
- calm-sill-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1952
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Kings Head Inn, Cross Street, Tenbury, WR15 8EG
- OS grid reference
- SO 594 680
- Coordinates
- 52.30909, -2.59612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Inn is a public house that dates from the late 16th century, with alterations made around 1800 and in the late 19th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick and rendered infill, as well as brick replacement walling and additions. The roofs are plain tiled, and there is a brick stack located to the south of the front roof pitch. The building consists of two framed bays aligned north to south and has an external chimney with a tall, detached rebuilt brick stack at the north end.
The inn is two storeys high, with the framing displaying four rows of panels from the sill to the wall-plate. The east front elevation has a jettied first floor supported by a moulded bressummer on shaped brackets that are decorated with weather-worn foliated carving. The structure includes a collar and tie-beam truss with three struts below the collar and a V-strut above at the north end.
On the east front elevation, the ground floor features two bay windows, while the first floor has two three-light windows. There is a central entrance with a half-glazed door. The main entrance, located at the north end, is adorned with a flat moulded canopy, a panelled surround, and a door with four flush panels. The external north chimney is enclosed by a single-storey addition with a flat roof, which has multi-paned windows facing north and east. Additionally, there is a parallel range at the rear from around 1800 and a substantial late 19th-century brick addition to the southwest.
Local climate
The Kings Head Inn receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 3 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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