King's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
King's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- endless-pediment-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- King's Head Public House, Church Street, Chard Town, TA20 2DW
- OS grid reference
- ST 323 082
- Coordinates
- 50.86972, -2.96292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Public House is a mid-19th century public house located on Church Street in Chard. It features a roughcast exterior, likely over limestone rubble, with stone sills and stepped coping on the gable ends. The roof is slate, with pantiles at the rear. The building has a double-depth L-shaped plan and stands two storeys high, with an eight-window range: three facing Old Town and four facing Church Street. There is one off-centre window on a canted bay at the corner, which has mid-20th century double doors. Another door, the third from the right, is also mid-20th century and has vertical glazing bars with an overlight set in a raised surround topped with a cornice. All windows are 6/6-pane sashes with horns, except for two blind windows on the first floor, located to the left of the bay and above the right-hand door, both of which have brackets for inn signs. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
King's Head Public House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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