Kings Head Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1997. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Kings Head Farm
- WRENN ID
- woven-chalk-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1997
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Kings Head Farm, B1007, Stock, CM4 9PH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 687 975
- Coordinates
- 51.65185, 0.43734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kings Head Farm is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th century, with a 19th-century outshot that was raised and altered in the 20th century, including changes to the windows and the addition of a wooden extension. The building is timber-framed and has been refaced in render. It features a tiled gambrel roof with a chimney stack on the right side and another axial stack at the rear. The farmhouse has one storey and an attic, with two windows and penticed dormers. The 20th-century casement windows are present, while the original front door, which has a hood and brackets, is a four-panelled door. At the rear, there is a brick and weatherboarded outshot, but the original external wall with diagonal braces remains intact behind it, along with the original back door.
Inside, the structure retains its frame with an axial beam that has a one-inch chamfer and lambs tongue stop. There is a cupboard beside the fireplace with a plank door, and a two-panelled door with H-hinges that leads to a winder staircase. The first floor features old floorboards, although the roof has been boarded in, and there is also a plank door.
Local climate
Kings Head Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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