The Queens Head is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1984. Inn.
The Queens Head
- WRENN ID
- spare-chapel-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1984
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Queens Head, Cowling Road, Kirtling
- OS grid reference
- TL 690 570
- Coordinates
- 52.18617, 0.47175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queens Head is an inn dating from the mid-16th century, with a 19th-century flint gable extension to the east. A painted date of 1558 is visible on modern plaster. The building features a timber frame and plastered exterior, along with flint and red brick dressings. It has a modern interlocking tile roof that is half hipped to the east and includes two rebuilt stacks. The structure is two storeys high and originally had a three-unit plan, with a later rear wing and a timber-framed extension to the north. There are three casement windows on the first floor and six on the ground floor, two of which have iron glazing bars. The building also has two panelled doors. Inside, the interior reveals exposed wall frames and a floor frame made of substantial timbers, along with a large inglenook hearth and an oak stair in its original position.
Local climate
The Queens Head sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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