King's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Public house.
King's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-wattle-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1984
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- King's Head Public House, 50, High Street, Fen Ditton
- OS grid reference
- TL 483 603
- Coordinates
- 52.2214, 0.16979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Public House is a 17th-century inn located on the west side of High Street in Fen Ditton. It features a timber-framed structure with plastered walls and a hipped corrugated iron roof that has a gablet on the north side. The building stands two storeys tall, with a single-storey range at the rear. On the first floor, there are three horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor includes two four-panelled doors and three windows, all with glazing bars. The property has one gault brick ridge stack and a side stack on the right-hand gable.
Local climate
King's Head Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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