NHER 16989 (Building record) - Crown and Mitre Public House, Ferry Street

December 1951. Listed Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Public House. Late 16th-century core, mainly early 18th and 19th century. Brick with roof of 20th-century grey pantiles. Front range facing street and two rear cross wings. Façade of two storeys in, loosely, three bays. Flemish bond brickwork. Three-bay fascia window of c.1830 to right: pilaster strips with capitals and bases define windows with their round mullions. Panelled door in centre under open pedimented doorcase. One horned sash window to left of elevation. Dentilled string course at first floor. Three horned sashes to first floor with glazing bars, set within earlier flush frames. Gabled roof, hipped to west. Internal eastern gable-end stack. West cross wing of 18th century, the top courses of brick rebuilt. Three sashes with glazing bars to ground floor and a canted oriel to first floor. East cross wing retains a blocked basket arch to rear."
Information from (S1).
H. Hamilton (HES), 16 November 2017.

January 1981. Field Observation.
Brick building, of local brick with dentilled string course apparently 18th century. Northwest quoins of freestone. Windows altered in 19th century (when staircase, iron window columns, etc. inserted.
Against southeast gable wall in 1980 fireplace revealed (S2). Semi-circular back, all of brick with row of thin tiles above lintel. Corbel for former fireplace on floor above. The flue winds to avoid this. Said to have been dated by West Norfolk District Council to mid-16th century, but more likely to be 17th-century. Large beams in downstairs ceilings have 17th-century stopped chamfers. Smaller beams are in part reused. Probably house has been rebuilt several times (fireplace lintel also reused). Present inn is apparently an 18th-century recasing of a 17th-century building.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU) and E. James (KLM), 29 January 1981. Information from record card (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 July 2023.

October 2008.
Planning application received concerning the proposed construction of a Brew House within the yard of the public house.
See (S3) and (S4) for further information
H. White (NLA), 20 March 2009

The Crown and Mitre public house is first mentioned in documentary sources in 1743. It was damaged by enemy action on 13 March 1941.
Information from (S6).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 23 November 2018.