The King's Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Havering local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1975. Inn. 11 related planning applications.
The King's Head Inn
- WRENN ID
- scattered-threshold-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Havering
- Constituency
- Hornchurch and Upminster MP: Julia Lopez (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1975
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The King's Head Inn, 189, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 541 870
- Coordinates
- 51.56158, 0.22239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Inn is a 17th century range of timber-framed buildings located on High Street in Hornchurch. The front is rendered, featuring modern applied timber-framing on the first floor and large ashlar blocks on the ground floor. The building has an old tiled roof and includes five 19th century gabled dormers of various sizes, four of which have moulded wooden architraves. Number 189 has a weatherboarded rear wing that is two storeys high, while behind numbers 191 and 193, there is a two-storey range that runs parallel to the main block but is lower in height.
Local climate
The King's Head Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 11 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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