The Queen's Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Inn.

The Queen's Head Inn

WRENN ID
stranded-span-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1960
Type
Inn
Address
The Queen's Head Inn, High Street, Box
OS grid reference
ST 825 685
Coordinates
51.41526, -2.25293
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Queen's Head Inn is an inn dating from the early 18th century, with an extension added in the late 18th century. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a main roof made of Bridgwater tiles, while the west extension has a slate roof. The building has coped gables and end wall stacks, and it stands two storeys high with an attic.

The main range includes two hipped dormers with leaded lights, raised quoins, and cyma-moulded mullion windows set in architrave frames with dripstones. To the left, there is a four-light window with a king mullion on both the ground and first floors, and a three-light window on the first floor to the right. On the ground floor to the right, there is a pair of 12-pane thick glazing bar sash windows in bead-moulded surrounds with a dripstone above.

A central Roman Doric porch projects from the building, featuring two columns and pilaster responds, with a studded plank door and an oval panel above set in a carved laurel frame. To the left is the late 18th-century extension, which has a hipped dormer, raised bands over each floor, paired 8-pane sash windows on both the first and ground floors in flush surrounds, and a six-panel door. At the rear, there is a wing with a Bridgwater tiled roof, a half-hipped north gable, and a two-light attic mullion window. Additionally, there are various 19th-century additions located behind the main range.

Local climate

The Queen's Head Inn receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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