The King's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The King's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- waning-hearth-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The King's Head Public House, 24, Bridge Road, Abbots Langley, WD4 8RE
- OS grid reference
- TL 082 005
- Coordinates
- 51.69335, -0.4351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Public House is a public house dating from the early to mid 18th century, with a part refronting and extension around 1900. It is constructed of red brick, which has been whitewashed and rendered at the front, and features a machine-tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a main range with four windows.
The left side consists of two bays with 18th-century brickwork, featuring later three-light casements and some blocked openings, along with a plat band. There is an external left end stack with offsets, stacks on the front pitch between the left bays, and a central ridge stack. The right side was refronted around 1900, with a ground floor entrance flanked by three-light windows, all rusticated and supported by panelled end piers. Above, there is a cornice leading to two-light casements with gabled heads and a parapet.
To the far right, there is an angled entrance with curved doors and a two-light casement above. Attached to the right end is a taller two-storey late 19th-century block, which features a full-height canted bay at the front with one bay of tall leaded lights to the left, all rusticated and topped with a cornice. This block has an extruded right end stack with flanking blind openings. At the rear, there are dentilled eaves, similar casements, and part roughcast, with the later block containing an entrance and flush frame sashes.
Local climate
The King'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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- 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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