The King's Head is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The King's Head
- WRENN ID
- ghost-tin-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The King's Head, Church Road, Little Marlow, SL7 3RZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 872 881
- Coordinates
- 51.58537, -0.74192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head is a public house located on Little Marlow Church Road, dating from the 17th century and rebuilt in the 19th century in two phases. The building is constructed of red brick and features dentil eaves and an old tile roof. It has a chimney with grouped shafts, partly made of thin brick, located to the right of the center, along with later brick end chimneys. The left gable is rendered. The structure is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The windows are three-light wooden casements with single horizontal glazing bars, and there are additional two-light casements on the ground floor of the right bays, with the right bay containing a blocked door. A 20th-century canted bay window is present on the left. The ground floor openings have cambered heads, and there is a four-panelled door between the left bays, topped with a 19th- to 20th-century wooden cornice hood supported by brackets. To the left, there is a single-storey extension, and at the rear, there are hipped and gabled brick projections. Inside, the building features chamfered spine beams, and the upper storey is said to retain some timber framing with angle braces.
Local climate
The King'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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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