NHER 41954 (Monument record) - Earl of Leicester Public House, Dereham Road

Public house, now demolished. Early 20th century.
Mixture of neo-Georgian and Art Nouveau styles; porch tower with rounded arches to each side resting on coupled columns. Above on entrance face was cartouche and a mullioned and transomed window; top story with name in Art Nouveau script below Venetian windows set beneath hooded cornices; pyramid roof. Main building two storeys under ridged roof, the porch tower being on the long side; large arched ground floor openings, and multi-pane sash windows scattered irregularly.
(S1) shows a building of the same name but on a different alignment on this site.

July 2005.
Demolished without record except for photograph published in (S2) (wrongly called Earlham Road). Demolition revealed good iron fireplaces.
See press cutting (S2).
E. Rose (NLA) 2005.