King's Head is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1976. A C18 Inn. 1 related planning application.
King's Head
- WRENN ID
- long-cellar-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1976
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- King's Head, 13, Old Market, Wisbech, PE13 1NJ
- OS grid reference
- TF 460 097
- Coordinates
- 52.66552, 0.15818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head is a late 18th century inn located on the east side of Wisbech Old Market. It is constructed of local brown brick, with a stucco finish on the ground floor and features rusticated quoins. The building has a hipped slate roof with two side stacks and rises to three storeys. On the ground floor, there are two segmental-headed wings and a door to the south that is topped with a rectangular fanlight. The first floor has three four-paned hung sash windows with segmental arches, while the second floor features three smaller windows. There are photographs and prints from the 18th and 19th centuries by W. & F. Mus.
Local climate
King's 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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