Kings Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1985. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
Kings Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- dim-brass-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Kings Head Hotel, Bircham, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE31 6RJ
- OS grid reference
- TF 767 322
- Coordinates
- 52.85864, 0.62397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King’s Head Hotel is a public house dating from 1860, built upon an earlier structure. It is constructed of whitewashed brick with tiled roofs and is arranged in an ‘L’ plan with a two-storey range to the north and a one-storey range with attics to the south. The architecture is Tudor-Gothic in style.
The north range has two ground-floor and three first-floor windows, all being three-light wooden casements with glazing bars. They are accentuated by dentillated brick drip moulds. A gabled porch provides access, featuring raised and fielded Gothic double doors. There is decorative fretwork to the bargeboard. A dormer gable rises from the eaves to the ridge, incorporating a two-light casement; modern barge boards have replaced the originals. A further dormer features a two-light casement with a drip mould head, also with replacement barge boards.
The south range includes a returned gable with a ground-floor three-light, drip mould headed casement and a first-floor architrave-framed opening containing a smaller two-light casement. A date stone reading ‘1860’ is set above this gable. Again, modern barge boards are present. The building is characterised by three north and two south diamond section stacks, each with a corbelled head.
The property is included on the list for its group value within the village green setting.
Local climate
Kings Head Hotel receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1997
- 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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