The Kings Head is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Kings Head
- WRENN ID
- far-garret-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Kings Head, 23, Market Place, AL3 5DP
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 072
- Coordinates
- 51.7521, -0.33978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head is an early 18th-century public house located on the west side of Market Place. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring a high-pitched, tiled mansard roof with dormers. The building is constructed of painted brick and has a parapet. The windows have been replaced and are mullioned and transomed, set beneath gauged, segmental brick arches. The ground floor showcases an earlier 19th-century public house front with plain Doric pilasters. The building has a rounded angle at the return on Upper Dagnall Street. The King's Head is part of a group that includes Nos 17 to 23 (odd).
Local climate
The Kings Head sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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