The Kings Head is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Inn.
The Kings Head
- WRENN ID
- salt-bailey-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Kings Head, 1, Silver Street, Cheddar
- OS grid reference
- ST 457 539
- Coordinates
- 51.28219, -2.77993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kings Head is a house that now operates as an inn, originally built in the 17th century with alterations in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building features painted rubble walls and has both thatched and pantile roofs, along with two brick and two rendered chimney stacks. It has an L-shaped plan with a two-bay and one-bay arrangement on the front. The right side has a projecting gabled wing with a coped verge. The left two bays have 16-pane sash windows, while the projecting wing has a 12-pane sash window on the first floor and a 16-pane sash window on the ground floor. The door opening between the bays features paired three-panel doors, with the top panel of each being glazed. A wooden sign with raised metal lettering reading "COURAGE" is located to the left of the first floor, and there is a projecting painted signboard on a mid-19th century wrought iron bracket on the first floor of the projecting wing. Inside, there are remnants of a moulded cross-beam ceiling and two open fireplaces with broad wooden lintels.
Local climate
The Kings Head receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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