android appKessingland King's Head
last updated Aug 16th, 2021.
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Kessingland King's Head
North West, 52.42027,1.70996
closed 2013
last owner/operator: Free House
High St, NR33 7QF
grid reference TM 523 867
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
Once a coaching inn, the front room was used as a restaurant, with a bar and patio to the rear.
The pub has closed and developers want to demolish it and replace it with homes. There have been local protests against this plan, but permission was granted in November 2016. However, when visited in July 2019, it was observed that the building was still standing and boarded-up.
Owner/operator: Pubmaster
Much improved pub, once an old coaching inn. The front room is now a restaurant with the bar and patio drinking area at the rear. Barbecues in summer. Good beer.
Beers: Tetley Bitter; Tolly Bitter, Old Strong; guest beer (Pubmaster list in summer).CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Gallery
Livingstone's 0.21 mile
Sailors Home 0.93 mile
Old Red House 2.0 miles
Bell Inn 2.0 miles
Coach House 2.4 miles
Oddfellows 2.4 milesHistorical interest
Part of the Household Furniture of Mr Samual WEST, at the king's Head Inn, Kessingland - he being about to decline the public line of business.Ipswich Journal, September 27th 1800***
To be sold by auction, at the King's Arms, Halesworth, on the 17th January 1821, as part of a large sale of Independent Inns and Public House, of established trade, in Suffolk, Lot 1., the King's Head, public house at Kessingland. All the houses for sale were described as being substantially brick built, in excellent repair, extremely well accustomed, possessing every convenience for carrying on extensive trades, and are subjected to trifling outgoings.Ipswich Journal, December 1820**
Two friends, Reeve Crowe and John Wright, had just returned from Spring fishing…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
