The King's Head is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 June 1991. Rural industry.
The King's Head
- WRENN ID
- turning-pinnacle-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1991
- Type
- Rural industry
- Address
- The King's Head, Llandeilo
- OS grid reference
- SN 628 221
- Coordinates
- 51.8813, -3.99398
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The King's Head is a building from the 18th century with later alterations. It is two storeys high and has three windows. The first floor features mock close studding above a roughcast ground floor, which is built on rubble. The roof is moderately pitched and covered with slate, hipped to the left, and has oversailing eaves. There are squat rendered stacks.
On the first floor, there are Victorian sash windows. The ground floor windows are similar, with the one on the left offset to the right. A central Doric timber portico features a moulded cornice with a plain frieze supported by two columns with pedestals. Panelled pilasters flank the doorway, which has a six-pane rectangular fanlight above a set of six fielded panel double doors. The front has a cobbled apron.
The side elevation facing Bridge Street includes a right-hand block that is three storeys high with three windows. It has Victorian sash windows on the second and first floors, with an additional window on the left at the first floor and a single Victorian sash on the ground floor. A rubble buttress is located on the right, and a rubble lateral staircase on the left leads to a doorway in the gable end of the left-hand block. This block is also three storeys high with two windows, featuring Victorian sash windows on the second and first floors, and a sixteen-pane sash window on the ground floor to the right. There is a shop window to the left, with gabled fascia ends, paired brackets, and pilasters. A four-light small paned window with a stone sill is present, along with a central doorway that has a three-pane rectangular fanlight above a 19th-century door.
Local climate
The King's Head sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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