Crown Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1949. A Georgian Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Crown Hotel
- WRENN ID
- fossil-landing-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1949
- Type
- Hotel
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Crown Hotel, 90 and 92, High Street, Southwold, IP18 6DP
- OS grid reference
- TM 507 762
- Coordinates
- 52.32661, 1.67867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown Hotel, now incorporating an adjoining house, dates from around 1740, with possible origins in the early 18th century. An early 19th-century extension was added to the rear, a front extension in about 1860, and further extensions to the rear in the 20th century. The adjoining house, formerly number 92, was incorporated in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of painted brick, with a hipped slate roof and brick stacks on the rear and north roof slopes. An inn sign bracket is made of wrought and cast iron.
The main front has two storeys and a dormer attic, with a five-window facade defined by rusticated quoins and a two-storey, single-window extension to the left. To the right is the adjoining house, formerly number 92, which has a two-storey, two-window front. A central portico porch with fluted Greek Doric columns and an entablature is a prominent feature, along with a 19th-century projecting cast-iron lamp and bracket. The windows are replacement 6/6 horned sashes in flush frames. A former bar door in the corner of the extension has been blocked and replaced with a 6/6 sash window. The house to the right has paired 6/6 horned sashes to the ground floor, an unhorned 2/2 sash window above, all beneath moulded cornices on foliate brackets. A full-width console cornice runs along the eaves. Four flat-topped dormers have 2/2 horned sashes. An attached bracket extends over the street, with a spandrel pierced by a trefoil and roundels; a 20th-century decorative sign plate is suspended beneath a bifurcated overthrow, replacing an earlier timber board.
The rear includes a surviving 18th-century three-light casement in an early 18th-century gabled cross wing, with other windows dating to the 20th century.
Inside, a mid-18th century closed-string staircase has turned balusters and a moulded handrail. A chamfered bridging beam with run-out stops is present in a ground-floor room to the right, with 20th-century replicas elsewhere. A plain assembly room is located on the first floor. The adjoining house, formerly number 92, was separately listed on 22 November 1971.
Local climate
Crown Hotel receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 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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