King's Head House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Inn. 1 related planning application.
King's Head House
- WRENN ID
- wild-zinc-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- King's Head House, 10, St Peter's Street, Duxford, CB22 4RP
- OS grid reference
- TL 479 459
- Coordinates
- 52.092, 0.15816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King's Head House is an inn that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 16th century, with additions from the 17th century and alterations from the 18th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring plain tiled roofs and red pantiles at the rear. It has a rear stack and 18th-century end stacks on both the right and left sides. The structure has two storeys and an attic, along with a cellar. There is a 17th-century rear kitchen wing and a 20th-century gable lean-to that is partly weather-boarded. A continuous jetty is supported by four curved jetty brackets under plastered joists. To the right of the center is a glazed panelled door with a moulded wooden architrave, accompanied by three large horizontal sliding sash windows with small panes and shutters. The first floor has three casement windows. Inside, there are chamfered ceiling beams. The King's Head operated as a public house from 1841.
Local climate
King's Head House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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