The King's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
The King's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- iron-paling-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The King's Head Public House, Bessels Green Road, Chevening, TN13 2QA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 505 555
- Coordinates
- 51.27906, 0.15775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Public House is a composite building located at the corner of Bessels Green Road, facing the green. It has origins in the 18th century, with early 19th-century additions. The original 18th-century section is constructed of painted brick, featuring a continuous painted base and stucco on the first floor. It has projecting boarded eaves and a gutter, with a ridge tile roof and end stacks. The building is two storeys high and includes two hip-tiled dormers.
On the ground floor, there is a 19th-century glazed and panelled door in the centre, with an octagonal projecting bay to the right that has a flat roof and contains sash windows with bars. To the left, there is one casement window. The first floor features two casement windows and a painted panel with the inn sign in the centre. Above, there are two dormers with lattice casements.
To the right is an early 19th-century addition that is also two storeys tall, made of painted brick with projecting boarded eaves and a gutter. It has a ridge Welsh slate roof. The ground floor includes a large tripartite sash window with bars, set under a flat segmental arch. The first floor mirrors this with a large similar tripartite window. To the extreme left, there is a one-storey wing with a ridge pantile roof.
The King's Head Public House, along with its dormers and garden wall, forms a group with Heath Cottage and Bessels Cottage.
Local climate
The King's Head Public House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 5 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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