The King's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. Public house. 7 related planning applications.
The King's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-turret-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1975
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The King's Head Public House, High Street, BA1 4BX
- OS grid reference
- ST 728 664
- Coordinates
- 51.39608, -2.39107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Public House is an 18th-century public house, with 19th and 20th-century additions. It is built of painted limestone ashlar, with a 20th-century double Roman tile mansard roof and moulded stacks to the gable ends. The building comprises three sections: a main block, a two-storey wing to the left, and a later wing to the far left.
The main block is two storeys with an attic, and has a five-window front. There is a coped parapet, a cornice, and a ground floor platband. The windows are six/six-pane sashes, with paired windows on the first floor to the left-of-centre and right, and six/six-pane windows on the ground floor at the outer ends. A narrow 19th-century central door has a blocked overlight. The lower left wing has thick glazing bars to a six/six-pane first-floor window at eaves level, and a late 19th-century horned two/two-pane sash window to the ground floor. The long left wing is in two stages and has a freestone quoin marking the vertical joint at the centre of the rear wall, topped with a slate roof. A paired six/six-pane sash window is visible to the rear first floor of the older part of this wing.
The interior has been heavily altered. The basement of the rear wing retains 18th-century masonry from the original kitchen range.
Local climate
The King's Head Public House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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