Queen's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Public house. 3 related planning applications.

Queen's Head Public House

WRENN ID
kindled-floor-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Type
Public house
Address
Queen's Head Public House, High Street, Colney Heath, AL4 0NS
OS grid reference
TL 206 057
Coordinates
51.73792, -0.2541
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Queen's Head Public House dates to the late 17th or early 18th century on its left side, with an addition of the 18th century forming the right side. A rear addition was constructed in the late 18th or early 19th century. The building is timber-framed and has been covered with painted brick, with a plastered gable end on the right. It has a plain tile roof in two sections, the left section being lower and slightly steeper. The front elevation originally held 3 glazing-bar casements, but now features a large 19th-century canted bay window on the ground floor to the left. Internally, the left side comprises one bay with chamfer-stopped beams and a rebuilt inglenook fireplace containing dated brick from 1763. The rear projection boasts a separate plain tile roof and dentilled brick eaves. The canted front bay is believed to have been used for coal tax collection.

Local climate

Queen's Head Public House 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 lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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