The Kings Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1953. Public house, inn. 1 related planning application.
The Kings Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- little-passage-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1953
- Type
- Public house, inn
- Address
- The Kings Head Hotel, High Street, Thornham, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE36 6LY
- OS grid reference
- TF 733 433
- Coordinates
- 52.95991, 0.57866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Hotel is a public house dating from the first half of the 17th century. It is constructed of whitewashed clunch and has a 20th-century concrete pantiled roof. The building is two storeys high and features a lobby entrance plan at the south end. On the ground floor, there are three 3-light casement windows, while the first floor has three 3-light casements and one 2-light casement, all of which are wooden framed with lead glazing bars and date from the 20th century. There are also two part-glazed doors, one at the south and one at the north, both from the 20th century. The hotel has an axial stack at the south and a coped north gable with a stack, topped by a steeply pitched roof. Inside, the ground floor at the south features three stopped and chamfered beams with roll mouldings.
Local climate
The Kings Head Hotel receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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