The King and Queen Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The King and Queen Public House
- WRENN ID
- under-parapet-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The King and Queen Public House, 1 and 2, Foley Street W1, City of Westminster, W1W 6DL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 292 817
- Coordinates
- 51.52026, -0.13863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King and Queen Public House is a corner public house dating from approximately 1890 to 1900. Constructed of red brick with brown stone dressings and a slate roof, it exhibits a lively and somewhat French-influenced Gothic design. The building stands four storeys high, with a basement, and occupies a prominent corner site.
The Foley Street facade is four windows wide, topped by a triple group of gabled half dormers. An irregular return extends to Cleveland Street, approximately three windows wide. The corner features a corbelled, conical-roofed tourelle. The ground floor has a painted stone pub front, with a splayed, arched corner entrance and boldly moulded semicircular arched bar windows to both street fronts. These windows have secondary doors flanked by engaged, foliate-capped shafts, with fascias featuring portal-like square columned stops. Upper floors are characterized by pointed arched, shafted sash windows with stone imposts and keys, and corbelled sills. The tourelle sits upon an arcaded and carved base and has three shafted windows per floor, finished with a copper roof and weathervane. Stone sill and impost courses are present throughout. A name panel is located on Cleveland Street, below a shouldered chimney stack. A small, single-storeyed, double-gabled wing projects onto Foley Street.
Local climate
The King and Queen Public House 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
- 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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