The Queen's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1986. Public house.
The Queen's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- vacant-postern-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Queen's Head Public House, Chelmsford Road, Purleigh
- OS grid reference
- TL 833 030
- Coordinates
- 51.69598, 0.65162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queen's Head Public House is a 17th-century building that has been altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with weatherboarding and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The structure has four bays facing southwest, with an original stack located at the rear of the second bay from the left, a 19th-century internal stack at the left end, and a 19th-century external stack at the right end. There are 19th and 20th-century rear extensions, as well as a 20th-century single-storey extension to the right. The building is two storeys high.
On the ground floor, there are three 19th and 20th-century sash windows with small panes and one 20th-century casement window. The first floor has three similar sash windows and one early 19th-century sash window with 16 lights. There are also two 20th-century glazed doors. The roof is hipped. Inside, there are chamfered transverse and axial beams with step and lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section. A large wood-burning hearth made of brick, measuring between 0.33 and 0.45 metres, features a mantel beam that is chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. The building is shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map from around 1800.
Local climate
The Queen's Head Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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