The Queens Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Public house.
The Queens Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-mullion-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Queens Head Public House, High Street, Sutton Valence
- OS grid reference
- TQ 811 492
- Coordinates
- 51.21333, 0.59231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queen's Head Public House is a 17th-century building with a mid-to-late 19th-century facade, located on the north side of High Street in Sutton Valence. It is timber framed, with the front elevation rendered in brick or stone, and the left gable is hung with plain and fishscale tiles. The building features a plain tile roof and has a lobby entry plan. It stands two storeys high with a semi-basement on a rendered plinth and includes a moulded string course. There is a brick stack with two fillets positioned to the left of centre. The fenestration is irregular, consisting of four recessed 12-pane glazing-bar sashes. A half-glazed door, located under the stack, is accessed by seven steps and is topped with a flat moulded hood on consoles. To the left, there is a slightly recessed two-storey rear wing that has two stacks. The interior has only been partly inspected, but it features exposed beams, with those in the central ground-floor room being ovolo-moulded. There is also a fireplace with stone jambs and a pargetted overmantel.
Local climate
The Queens Head Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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