Green Dragon

6 Church Street, Wymondham NR18 0PH

Grade C · TraditionTrading · checked Oct 2026

Green Dragon claims 1310. No earlier record has been found.

Claimed: 1310
First record: none found
Building: no single date

The building. Substantially mid-C15 timber-framed hall house with jettied street range and rear cross wing; C19 brick wing — we give it no single date because Historic England gives substantially mid-C15 without a year.

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Historic interior
Real ale
Food
Beer garden
Dog friendly

How old is it, really?

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Hatched: 716 years claimed with no document found yet.

The claim

A jettied, close-studded front on Church Street, opposite the abbey, with a row of blocked medieval arches in the wall and small rooms behind. CAMRA rates the interior nationally important even after a 1993 refit. It has closed and reopened in recent years, most recently under new tenants, with pies, roasts and a garden.

What the records show

The Green Dragon puts 1310 on its sign and its website. Historic England lists the building Grade II* as substantially mid-C15 and, from the arcade of pointed arches in the front wall, thinks it began as a shop. Norfolk pub historians note that 1317 is the earliest date anyone gives, that others read the fabric as late C14 or mid C15, and that its use as a pub is traceable from the 16th century. The house survived the fire that took some three hundred Wymondham buildings in 1615.

What to look for inside

Blocked medieval shop arcade in the street front
Survived the Wymondham fire of 1615
Two-star entry on CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors

Visiting

Green Dragon is in Wymondham, England, at 6 Church Street, Wymondham NR18 0PH. We do not list opening times, because they change; the pub’s own site is the place to check before you set out.

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Sources

Black-and-white photograph of the jettied timber front of the Green Dragon in 1903, a man standing by the yard gates — Then and now
Photographed about 1903, and today. The Green Dragon in 1903.
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