The Tuns Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Public house. 1 related planning application.

The Tuns Public House

WRENN ID
steep-cobalt-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1972
Type
Public house
Address
The Tuns Public House, 2 and 2a, Unthank Road, NR2 2RA
OS grid reference
TG 224 085
Coordinates
52.62911, 1.28484
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Tuns Public House is a building that originated as a house in the 17th century, with an early 19th-century facade. It features painted flint rubble with brick dressings and repairs, and has a plain tile roof supported by three rebuilt brick chimneys. The structure is L-shaped, with two storeys and an attic, and includes three first-floor windows.

To the right, there is a panelled door that has a simple doorcase with a small hood. Most of the windows are large-paned sashes, with one set in a flush-fronted wooden frame. There are traces of jambs indicating earlier, wider windows. The left side has a blind gable, while the right side features a casement window in a gabled dormer.

A later brick extension on the left includes a canted first-floor bay window. At the rear, there are two gabled dormers with wooden framed casements. The rear gable facing Grapes Hill has brick kneelers and a wooden mullioned window beneath a moulded brick pediment.

Local climate

The Tuns Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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