Kings 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.

Kings Head Public House

WRENN ID
turning-solder-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1982
Type
Public house
Address
Kings Head Public House, Peldon Road, Great and Little Wigborough
OS grid reference
TL 953 148
Coordinates
51.79787, 0.83122
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Kings Head Public House is a 17th-century building located on Great and Little Peldon Road in Wigborough. It features a timber frame with plaster and some rendered brickwork, topped with a hipped roof made of red plain tiles. The structure has two storeys and includes lean-tos on the end elevations. The ground floor has a window arrangement of 1:2:1, while the first floor has three windows. The windows are 19th-century double hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars. There is a central door, and modern extensions have been added to the rear of the building.

Local climate

Kings Head Public House 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 greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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