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The Green, HUNSTANTON, PE36 6BQ

A view of the Hunstanton Tourist Information Centre.

Le Strange had the resort of New Hunstanton built on his land in the 19th century, the original Hunstanton being further north. Later the older place became Old Hunstanton, and the newer dropped the New. The Town Hall of 1896 is grade II listed.

Grade II Listed Town Hall. Dated 1896 and inscribed CJ and FW Skipper, architects. In the first world war it was used as a billet for the British Army's first sniper unit, then known as "sharpshooters", The Lovat Scouts. After the war it was a meeting place of Hunstanton Urban District Council but also used as a theatre. In 1974 West Norfolk Council was formed and it ceased to home the Urban District Council but continued to be used as the offices and meeting place of Hunstanton Town Council and an information centre. A major programme of refurbishment works was completed in September 2021 and a new art gallery opened in the area formerly occupied by the tourist information centre in February 2022.

A grade II listed building of 1848, built for the landowner Henry Styleman Le Strange as a precursor to his development of the rest of what is now Hunstanton. Originally the Royal Hotel.

Le Strange had the resort of New Hunstanton built on his land in the 19th century, though it is now known as just Hunstanton. He is clearly very popular with the local gulls.

On the Green.

Grade II Listed hotel. The 29 room hotel was built from 1846 and is now part of the Coast and Country Hotels Group. The first building in the 'New' Hunstanton, early directories list it as Hunstanton-St Edmund's the brain child of Henry Le Strange. The hotel, possibly by William Butter- field, opened as the New Inn in 1847. Hunstanton is not in my 1850 directory but by 1854 it was known as the Royal Hotel. By my 1877 directory it has changed to the Golden Lion Hotel. As part of the Specialist Leisure Group, in May 2020 the hotel closed when the group went into administration "due to the impact of COVID-19". It opened 4 months later on 2nd October taken on by the Warrington-based company, Bespoke Hotels. Closed again due to the COVID lockdown it partially re-opened in May 2021 as part of newly-formed collection of former Shearings Hotels, Coast & Country Hotel Collection. Licensees or managers include; 1854-1856 Mary Savory; 1864-1869 Henry Whiting; 1870-1872 Thomas Mahon; 1877 Mrs Elizabeth Mahon; 1879-1896 William W Nourse and Benjamin F Rowell; 1901-1912 Miss Kate Rennison; 1916 Miss R S Dangerfield, manageress; 1933-1937 Charles Ernest Grey; 1949 Douglas Victor Gray; 1960 Peter Horsfall; 1961 Thomas Rowland Harman; 1962 Peter Horsfall and Horace Hinchcliffe; 1965 Norman Goode and Horace Hinchcliffe; 1967 Robert Keith McMillan and Peter Horsfall; 1989 Denis Beeaon, manager.

Looking towards The Golden Lion hotel https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1342241 one of the oldest buildings in Hunstanton probably designed by William Butterfield and the Cross https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1077949 brought here from Old Hunstanton to act as a focal point for the new (i.e. mid nineteenth century) new town.

On The Green in Hunstanton.