The Kings Head is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1966. Restaurant and public house. 11 related planning applications.
The Kings Head
- WRENN ID
- silent-tower-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1966
- Type
- Restaurant and public house
- Address
- The Kings Head, Station Road, Ivinghoe, LU7 9EB
- OS grid reference
- SP 944 161
- Coordinates
- 51.83638, -0.62992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head is a restaurant and public house with an attached cottage located at the north-west end. The north-west wing includes two bays of a medieval cruck building, while the rest of the structure dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, all of which was re-cased in brick in the late 18th to 19th centuries, with some later alterations. The south-west front is primarily constructed of red and vitreous brick with red brick dressings, while the two right bays are made of white brick. The south-east front features a roughcast and whitewashed upper storey. The building has old tile roofs and brick chimneys, with the central chimney of the south-west range dating to the 17th century and featuring 'V' pilasters.
The building is L-shaped and has two storeys, with a long range to the south-west consisting of eight irregular bays. The two bays on the right have 19th-century three-light barred wooden casements with small panes, and the right bay is gabled. The remaining bays have 20th-century wooden casements with segmental heads, some of which include leaded top lights. There is a canted bay window and a first-floor oriel in the fourth bay. The fifth bay features 20th-century double doors with a wooden balcony above, and there is another door to the left. The lower range to the left includes a carriage entry with flanking cruck trusses, and the right bay contains part of another cruck. The left bay, known as No. 8, has 20th-century casements, with the ground floor featuring a bow window and a wide board door to the left. The south-east front has three bays with barred horizontal sliding sashes on the ground floor and two leaded casements above. There are 20th-century extensions in the rear angle.
Inside, the building retains parts of its timber frame, including heavily jowled main posts and some diagonal braces. The ground floor room to the right of the main chimney has a stop-chamfered spine beam and a moulded fireplace lintel. The staircase features fine late 18th-century turned balusters and a moulded handrail.
Local climate
The Kings Head sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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