King's Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1949. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
King's Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- spare-tower-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1949
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- King's Head Hotel, 2, Market Place, Bungay, NR35 1EG
- OS grid reference
- TM 336 898
- Coordinates
- 52.45623, 1.43696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Head Hotel is an early 18th-century building of three storeys. It is constructed of colourwashed brick with a plinth and is roofed with pantiles. The front has seven windows at the first floor, each with glazing bars set within flush frames, and flat arches above. A six-panel door is set within a wooden Doric case, featuring pilasters, a keyed architrave, and a pediment. The building forms a group with numbers 2 to 16 (even) on the west side of the Market Place.
Local climate
King's Head Hotel 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 6 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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