Kings Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Kings Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-banister-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Kings Head Public House, 21 and 23, Bretonside, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 482 544
- Coordinates
- 50.37073, -4.1353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Head Public House is a public house located on Bretonside in Plymouth. It dates back to the 17th century but was remodeled in the late 19th century. The exterior features a rendered studwork or brick front with a tall parapet that conceals a steep asbestos roof, along with two parallel hipped roofs at right angles to the rear. There are brick end stacks and a truncated rubble lateral stack. The building has a single-depth plan that was extended at the rear.
It stands three storeys high and has a four-window range. Most of the windows are late 19th-century horned sashes, and there are doorways on the left and right with panelled doors. At the rear, there is an early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash window. Inside, the front bar area features three visible 17th-century moulded cross beams.
Local climate
Kings Head Public House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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