The Kings Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Inn. 6 related planning applications.
The Kings Head Inn
- WRENN ID
- wild-storey-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Kings Head Inn, Bures Road, Great Cornard, CO10 0JE
- OS grid reference
- TL 883 399
- Coordinates
- 52.0262, 0.74447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Head Inn is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered building located on Bures Road in Great Cornard. It has two storeys and features a four-window range. The upper storey windows are two and three-light leaded casements, while the ground storey windows are double-hung sashes, mostly with glazing bars. There are two six-panel doors that have plain pilasters and a cornice. At the rear, there is a gabled wing that projects out. The roof is tiled and includes cut and shaped ornamental bargeboards at both the north and south ends.
Local climate
The Kings Head Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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