Building record KSS 112 - King's Head

A 3-cell building with large rooms arranged in-line on the ground floor, the first floor is an attic. There is a a rear addition and a long rear range. The front-range dates from the early-17th century, with the rear façade of 18th century brickwork, perhaps-re-cased in brick all the way around. The front façade is of stucco ashlar-lines and expressed quoins at the corners facing the main road. The ground floor has canted bay windows to the south and north with rooms facing the street. The front range faces onto the main road and the south gable onto Church Lane, both of which enclose the site, together with a rear, un-adopted, lane and a house and garden to the north. Originally a three-cell, in line building, most likely of lobby-entrance form and probably as a domestic farmhouse set within the common of the “street hamlet” of Kessingland. Based on the research by others it appears to have been converted to public-house use by at least 1746 and has remained so ever since (S1).