St Johns Head Public House

The St John’s Head Public House is an early 18th-century building in Great Yarmouth, altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of red brick with flint courses and has a slate roof to the front and pantiles to the rear. The building is two storeys high with a five-window front. A central 20th-century door is set within a fluted doorcase featuring a triglyph frieze and pediment. Two 6/6 sash windows are located to the right and left of the door, set within exposed boxes and under gauged skewback arches, all dating from the 20th century. The 19th-century public house facade was removed, and the entire ground floor rebuilt in the 20th century. A platband runs between the floors. The first floor has four 6/6 sash windows, an ornamental oval window to the right, and a cusped oval window in the centre. A rebuilt parapet and gabled roof complete the facade. Internal gable-end stacks are visible to the right and left. The north gable wall retains some early 18th-century brick and flintwork, but the gable head was rebuilt in the 20th century. A two-storey, mid-20th-century brick extension runs across the entire rear of the building. Inside, the north ground-floor fireplace features a re-used early 16th-century ribbon-moulded bressumer. The former ground-floor rooms have been opened into a single area and fitted with replica large-framed panelling. A first-floor corridor partition has been inserted to the east. There are three bridging beams with sunk-quadrant mouldings, and a fourth with roll mouldings.