The Kings Head is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. A C16 or earlier Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Kings Head
- WRENN ID
- peeling-cellar-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Kings Head, Victoria Place, Brightlingsea, CO7 0HT
- OS grid reference
- TM 085 168
- Coordinates
- 51.8114, 1.02441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Head is a public house with origins dating back to the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions, including 19th-century restorations. It is timber-framed and has a rough render with batten decoration. The building has a long, red, plain-tiled roof with double-gabled sections facing Ladysmith Avenue. There are red brick chimney stacks on the right side and two located towards the rear of the building, slightly off-centre. The building is two storeys high, featuring a five-window front with widely-spaced vertically sliding sash windows, glazing bars, and shutters. A single-storey red-tiled verandah, supported by posts with arched braces, runs the full length of the building. There are 19th-century doors located on the right, left, and centre. Internally, much of the timber frame is covered by 19th-century boarding, but a 16th-century brick fireplace, a 16th-century moulded ceiling, and bridging joists are visible.
Local climate
The Kings Head sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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