The Queen's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The Queen's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- waning-crypt-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Queen's Head Public House, Ford Street, Aldham, CO6 3PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 920 269
- Coordinates
- 51.90836, 0.79059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queen's Head Public House is a 16th century building that has been altered over time. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure. The front has a long range of five windows on the first storey, consisting of four eight-pane hornless sashes and one six-pane hornless sash in exposed boxes. The ground storey includes three tripartite sashes and two front doors set in wooden cases with flat leaded hoods. The plasterwork is marked to resemble ashlar. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with machine-made tiles, and there are two chimney stacks located toward the south end. At the rear, there is a cross-wing and a lean-to roof on its return. Inside, 17th century panelling is now visible in the attic.
Local climate
The Queen's Head Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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