King's Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
King's Head Inn
- WRENN ID
- muted-obsidian-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- King's Head Inn, 14, Church Street, Merriott, TA16 5PR
- OS grid reference
- ST 444 128
- Coordinates
- 50.91265, -2.79121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Inn is an inn dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings and features a double Roman clay tiled roof. The roof has a high coped gable on the west side, indicating it may have originally been thatched, while the east side is plain. There are brick chimney stacks at either end. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. It has a plinth and a band course. The windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned types set in chamfered recesses without labels. The first bay features a 1 + 4 + 1 light angled shallow bay window with a flat roof, the second bay has 4-light windows on both floors, and the third bay has horizontal-bar casements, with three lights above and four lights below. There is a plain doorway between the second and third bays. A large hanging sign is mounted on a wrought iron bracket to the left of the upper first bay. The west gable is rendered, while the east gable has a 20th-century casement window. At the rear, there is a lean-to extension. The interior, which has only been seen at ground floor level, retains timber crossbeams and a fireplace. The inn was in operation by 1745.
Local climate
King's Head Inn receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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