The Queen's Head is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Queen's Head
- WRENN ID
- errant-brick-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Queen's Head, Harbour Parade, Ramsgate, CT11 8LP
- OS grid reference
- TR 385 647
- Coordinates
- 51.3322, 1.4227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queen's Head is a public house built in 1908. It features red brick with yellow, blue, and green glazed terra-cotta. The building has three storeys, with a recessed ground floor supported by pilasters. It has plaster strip quoins, moulded string courses, and a prominent centerpiece on the second floor. This centerpiece includes a modillion cornice and a segmentally pedimented gable topped with a lion finial and a scrolled parapet.
The secondary elevation to the right, which overlooks a yard entry, also has pilaster quoins, pilasters, a moulded string course, and a pierced and scrolled parapet. There are stacks on both the left and right sides of the building. The pedimented gable is adorned with panels of enriched foliate moulded brickwork featuring a central medallion. The second floor has keyed round-headed sashes on either side and a central tripartite wooden casement. On the first floor, there are two French windows with semi-circular fanlights set in keyed surrounds, accompanied by a bowed iron balcony with a honeysuckle pattern.
The right-hand block has a keyed round-headed sash on the second floor and a sash in a projecting frame with a cornice on brackets on the first floor. The plain yard entry features double boarded gates set in a foliated glazed tile surround with a frieze. The pub entrance on the left is marked by a large segmentally headed recess on the ground floor, richly moulded in glazed tiles, with a large segmental bow and tiled aprons beneath large mullioned and transomed windows. The central entrance consists of double half-glazed doors, flanked by imitation doors on either side. Inside, the pub boasts a fine glazed tile dado and a panelled interior with a central bar.
Local climate
The Queen's Head sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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