NHER 13367 (Monument record) - Site of Goat Inn, Friar's Street

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Summary

This is the site of the Goat Inn, which is reputed to have contained medieval or post medieval wall paintings. There is documentary evidence for an inn on this site from at least 1600 onwards, but it is possible that this building was much earlier. Reports of its demolition around 1957 suggest that a 15th century window was removed to King's Lynn Museum.

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Location

Map sheet TF61NW
Civil Parish KING’S LYNN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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An 'ancient' building, which had a mantelpiece panel painting of a castle, perhaps Middleton Towers.
Information from (S1).
E. Rose (NAU).

(S2) reports that this public house was known as The Goat from 1695, but that prior to that it had been called the Spaud or Spaud Bone from 1600 onwards. By 1741 it was known as the Bell, in 1751 as the Bell and Spade and by 1776 it was back to being known as the Goat. According to (S2) it closed as a public house in 1921, and the building was demolished around 1957, with a medieval stone window from the building being given to King's Lynn Museum.
Old photographs (S3) show a two-storey building, with brick at ground floor level and a rendered first floor, and a plain tiled roof.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 9 July 2019.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Archive: Bolingbroke family. 1300's-1960. Bolingbroke Collection. Norfolk Record Office.
  • <S2> Website: Norfolk Pubs. Norfolk Public Houses: The Goat, King's Lynn. http://www.norfolkpubs.co.uk/kingslynn/gkingslynn/klgoa.htm. 1 May 2019.
  • <S3> Website: Unknown. King's Lynn Forum: The Goat Inn. https://www.kingslynn-forums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1303. 1 May 2019.

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Record last edited

Jul 9 2019 10:34AM

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