The King's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1987. A C17 Public house.
The King's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- floating-gargoyle-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The King's Head Public House, High Street, Tollesbury
- OS grid reference
- TL 955 104
- Coordinates
- 51.75836, 0.83262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Public House is a building that dates from the 17th and 18th centuries and is now used as a public house. It features a timber frame, primarily plastered, with some imitation framing, weatherboarding, and red brick cladding in Flemish bond. The roof is covered with handmade red clay tiles. The original 17th-century structure consists of a 4-bay range facing north, which has one external stack at the rear and another at the right end. An early 18th-century range extends from the left end, facing Church Street, and includes one external stack at the rear. There is also an 18th or early 19th-century range at the back, with an end stack, creating a half-H plan.
There are single-storey lean-to extensions from the 19th and 20th centuries within the courtyard and to the right of the main range. The building has two storeys and attics. In the early 20th century, the corner of the building was chamfered off, and the north and east elevations were restyled. The north elevation features two early 20th-century casements on the ground floor, along with one 18th-century splayed bay with early 20th-century sashes. The first floor has three early 20th-century sashes, and the attic contains two 20th-century casements in gabled dormers. The ground floor is clad in red brick, while the first floor is plastered with exposed imitation framing. The roof is gambrel-shaped, and at the left corner, there is an early 20th-century square brick pinnacle topped with a pyramidal roof.
The east elevation, facing Church Street, has a similar facade treatment, with four early 20th-century casements on the ground floor, four early 20th-century sashes on the first floor, and three 20th-century casements in lean-to dormers in the attic. The roof is also gambrel-shaped, with a half-hip at the left end. Inside the north range, there are chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops on both storeys, plain joists with a vertical section, and jowled posts. The roof was rebuilt as a gambrel in the 18th century. The east range features chamfered transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops above the upper storey.
Local climate
The King's 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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