The Saracen's Head is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1985. A N/A Pub. 9 related planning applications.
The Saracen's Head
- WRENN ID
- wild-clay-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1985
- Type
- Pub
- Period
- N/A
- Address
- The Saracen's Head, 1 and 3, London End, Beaconsfield, HP9 2JH
- OS grid reference
- SU 945 900
- Coordinates
- 51.60152, -0.6362
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Saracen's Head is a public house of 16th-century origin, largely rebuilt in 1893 by A. Vernon. The ground floor is finished with colourwashed roughcast, the first floor has black applied boarding and colourwashed plaster, and the roof is covered with machine tiles. The ground floor features a carriage entrance with a wooden beam lintel, two modern entrances, and two 1:3:1 sash windows. The first floor has two 3-light bay windows on brackets with gables into the roof, two 1:3:1 sash windows, and a 3-light bay window extending through two storeys in the right-hand corner. A long frontage with sham timbering and stucco infill, dated 1893, is visible on the right-hand return (Nos 1, 3 and 5 Windsor End). The corner ground floor room of the front range contains heavy ceiling timbers, including a dragon beam. The building is listed for group value.
Local climate
The Saracen'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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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