NHER 5269 (Building record) - The Ostrich public house

October 1951. Listed Grade II.
Listing Description:
The Ostrich Public House with cottage attached at east.
Public house. 18th- and 19th-century front on earlier core. Flemish bond red brick, red pantiles. Rubble flint with brick dressed west gable. Two storeys, five windows, two wings at right angles at rear. Three ground and three first floor irregularly spaced three-light 19th-century Holkham estate cast-iron casements with glazing bars under cambered arches. Two blocked first floor windows. b,1900 off-centre door with two arched upper glazed lights, rectangular fanlight. Off-centre boarded door carriage entrance. First floor plat-band. End gable first floor moulded kneelers suggesting line of earlier jettied first floor. Three attic gabled two-light cast-iron casement dormer windows. Eaves kneelers, brick coped parapets with two end gable stacks. Carriage entrance has two chamfered stopped tranverse beams, crude joists. Two-storey flint wing at west. Two-storey brick wing at east has exposed through purlin roof with wind bracing. Two-window, two-storey cottage attached at east, c.1900 details.
Information from (S1).
Summarised by E. Rose (NAU) 21 February 1986, expanded by P. Watkins (HES), 1 February 2019.

Visited 28 August 1975.
Good brick façade and flint side walls.
Timber beams exposed in roof of carriage arch.
Probably early 18th century.
E. Rose (NAU) 28 August 1975.

October 2005.
The east wing is used as the public house. In the centre of the wing is a massive brick stack with fireplaces either site (north and south). There is a modern brick toilet block extension on the back of the east wing, and a brick and flint extension to back of west wing.
D. Robertson (NLA), 27 October 2005.