Old Queen's Head is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Inn. 1 related planning application.
Old Queen's Head
- WRENN ID
- eternal-loft-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Old Queen's Head, Turnpike Road, Bunwell
- OS grid reference
- TM 126 927
- Coordinates
- 52.49135, 1.1313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Queen's Head is an 18th-century former inn located on Bunwell Turnpike Road. It is constructed of painted brick and features a steep pantile roof with gable ends that have brick coping. The building has brick dentil eaves and a brick string course. It stands two storeys high and has four windows, which are two-light mullion transom casements. The central doorway is adorned with panelled double doors, and there is a central brick chimney stack. At the north-east end, there is a one-storey and attic wing, also made of painted brick, with a pantile roof that has gabled ends and a gabled dormer.
Local climate
Old Queen's Head 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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