Crown

Beside the village green, this is a neatly kept and rather civilised place with friendly staff. The contemporary open-plan bar has several distinct seating areas with brown leather and wood dining chairs around a mix of tables (including a huge round one), a log fire in a modern brick fireplace (with a grandfather clock and bookshelves on either side) and rugs on the stripped floorboards. High bar chairs beside the handsomely slate-topped counter are popular and they keep their own-brewed JoC's Norfolk Ale plus Adnams Bitter and Broadside on handpump and several wines by the glass. The other end of the room is slightly more informal with a mix of leather-seated dining chairs around all sorts of tables, a couple of built-in wall seats, another bookshelf beside a second fireplace and 1950s and 1960s actor prints in Shakespearean costume on the walls. There's also more of a pubby part with planked and cushioned white-painted built-in seats and nice photographs on the pink walls, and a cosy lower area to the back of the building with comfortable leather sofas and armchairs and a flatscreen TV; newspapers to read. Upstairs is yet another dining room with a high-pitched ceiling. There are neat picnic-sets under parasols on the front gravel. This pub is in the growing Flying Kiwi Inns group.