The Queenshead is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Inn.
The Queenshead
- WRENN ID
- burning-brass-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Queenshead, 30, High Street, Holywell-Cum-Needingworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 342 721
- Coordinates
- 52.33059, -0.03171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queenshead is an 18th-century inn located on the north side of High Street in Needingworth. It has a three-unit plan and stands two stories tall. The building is constructed of local brick and is color-washed. It features a modern plain tile roof with tumbled parapet gables, an end stack, and a central ridge stack. The first floor has a range of four hung sash windows with glazing bars, while the ground floor has four hung sashes set in flat, gauged brick arches. There is a central modern door on the right side of the building.
Local climate
The Queenshead sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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