The King's Head PH is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 November 2002. Public house, hotel.
The King's Head PH
- WRENN ID
- low-terrace-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 November 2002
- Type
- Public house, hotel
- Address
- The King's Head PH, Chepstow
- OS grid reference
- ST 532 937
- Coordinates
- 51.64099, -2.67711
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The King's Head is a public house and hotel built in the baroque style. The exterior features stone walls with some brick, which are roughcast rendered at the front and painted black and white. It has a hipped slate roof with a tall brick off-ridge stack and overhanging eaves that include a modillion cornice. The building stands three storeys high and has a four-window front.
On the top floor, there are six-pane sash windows with painted plain architraves and a continuous moulded sillband. The first floor features twelve-pane sash windows with painted corniced surrounds and a continuous sillband. The ground floor is painted black and has channelled rustication. It includes a central entrance with an eared doorway and a coat of arms above, framed in a foliated design. A heavy moulded and swept hood is supported by enriched Ionic columns, with large cartouches on either side. There are recessed semicircular windows on either side of the entrance, featuring small-pane upper lights, and a sash window on the left end. The building has a very deep plinth.
Local climate
The King's Head PH receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
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