The Crown Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1983. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
The Crown Hotel
- WRENN ID
- idle-alcove-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Crown Hotel, 25, High Street, Watton, IP25 6AB
- OS grid reference
- TF 915 007
- Coordinates
- 52.57123, 0.82508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown Hotel is an early 19th-century hotel located on Watton High Street. It is constructed of brick and features a pantiled roof. The building has three storeys and is arranged in five bays on a rendered plinth. To the left, there is a doorcase with a timber architrave and an armorial keystone. To the right, four sash windows with glazing bars are set under gauged skewback arches with segmental tops. The window surrounds and keystones are rendered. The first floor has five identical windows, while the second floor has three, with the storeys separated by a rendered string course. Rendered quoins frame the facade on both the right and left sides. The building has an overhanging timber cornice and a gabled roof that is hipped at the east, featuring internal end stacks. Inside, the first-floor dining room is timber framed with studs and arched braces, and there are four ceiling beams.
Local climate
The Crown Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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