Record Details
| NHER Number: | 35943 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Queen's Head Inn |
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Summary
This timber-framed building has a three cell plan with an original stack, upper floor and attic. The fireplace is carved with AM (for Ave Maria) and 1683. This could be the date of the construction of the building although the construction details date it slightly earlier to around 1650. There have been substantial 19th-century alterations.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 3221 8909 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM38NW |
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| Parish: | EARSHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
June 1981. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
Late 17th-century timber-frame house, partly brick faced, painted. Steep slate roof with gabled ends. Rebuilt brick chimney stack off centre. Two storeys and attic. 19th-century and modern casements. Modern single storey projecting brick extension on front. Two gabled dormers at rear.
Interior: fireplace with moulded chamfered bressumer with brick jambs with date carved in brick 'WR 1683'. Stop chamfered ceiling beams. Small single storey wing on south-west corner, brick, steep pantile roof with parapeted gable ends, with tall chimney stack."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 26 February 2022.
February 2001. Building Survey.
Queen's Head Inn.
Timber framed building of three cell plan, originally stack and upper floors. Fireplace has date of 1683 which could be the date of construction, but building could be nearer 1650. 19th century alterations. The fireplace is carved with AM (for Ave Maria) and 1683. This could be the date of the construction of the building although the construction details date it slightly earlier to around 1650. There have been substantial 19th-century alterations.
See report (S2) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 20 February 2001.
It is likely that 'AM' are actually the initials of the owner 'WR'.
Original information compiled by S. Heywood (NCC), 16 July 2010.
See (S3).
S. Howard (NLA), 19 July 2010.
Monument Types
- INN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 316. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1050363. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Document: Rose, E. (NLA). 2001. Building Report.. Building Report. |
| <S3> | Correspondence: Heywood, S. 2010. E-mail from the heritage explorer website providing feedback on NHER 35943. 16 July. |
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