The Nag's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Nag's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-hinge-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Nag's Head Public House, the Ford, Little Hadham, SG11 2AX
- OS grid reference
- TL 435 218
- Coordinates
- 51.87659, 0.08453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nag's Head Public House is a building that dates from the 16th to 17th century, incorporating a 15th-century cross wing, with 18th-century rear additions and an inserted floor, as well as a 19th-century front addition to the cross wing. It has a T-plan hall-house layout facing east, with a cross wing to the north. The structure is two storeys high and features three windows. It is timber framed with plaster pargetting and has a steep old red tiled roof that is half-hipped at the south and extended at the rear over a lean-to addition and staircase. The cross wing is half-hipped with a gablet at the west but is now gabled at the front. The upper floor has panelled pargetting with a central oval and a painted date of '1595', while the north side showcases fan pargetting.
At the southwest corner, there is a single-storey 18th-century brick and tile gabled rear addition, with a floor below ground level used as a cellar. The ground floor is now faced in painted brickwork with a dark plinth. There is also a single-storey 19th-century painted brick addition with a steep tiled roof and a gable facing the road, built against the front of the cross wing. A large central chimney, likely from the 17th century, is located one third from the south end. The 18th-century lateral fireplace is found in the room to the right of the central door. The central beam in the cross wing has mortices indicating a former partition on the ground floor.
The front features 19th-century three-light casement windows with segmental heads on the ground floor, a modern door, and a small enclosed porch. The front addition has two-light casements, with a three-light oriel also on the east side. The roof of the cross wing has a collar-and-rafter design without longitudinal members, while the main range has a clasped purlin roof. There are chamfer marks on the doorhead leading into the cross wing from the room to the right of the entrance. The south room is at a lower level, and the party wall to the south is exposed in English bond. Internal partitions on the ground floor have largely been removed.
Local climate
The Nag's Head Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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