King's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Public house.
King's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- crooked-chalk-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- King's Head Public House, Norwich Road, Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall
- OS grid reference
- TM 158 973
- Coordinates
- 52.5309, 1.18035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Public House is an 18th-century building located on Norwich Road in Ashwellthorpe. It features a stuccoed exterior and a pantile roof with coped gable ends and a modillion eaves cornice. The structure is two storeys high and has three asymmetrical windows. The first floor has 19th-century casements with glazing bars, while the ground floor has modern casements. At the south end, there is an early 19th-century wing that is also stuccoed, with a pantile roof and brick dentil eaves. This wing has one window with 19th-century casements and a polygonal porch topped with a hipped slate roof. There is an additional early 19th-century wing at the rear (south-west) and a modern one-storey wing with a flat roof at the north end.
Local climate
King's Head 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 89% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings