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A property auction was held here 20th June 1791 (FISHERMANS ARMS) William Hardy dined here in 1792. Offered For Sale 30th August 1794. Sold in 1802 for the sum of £232 Thomas Porter Meadows assigned his Estate and Effects to John Ramm, Common Brewer of Wiveton and William Mash, Merchant of Cley in an Indenture dated 23rd June 1821, for the equal benefit of his Creditors. Offered for sale by auction Friday 25th February 1831. Described as an extensive business with a long range of Stables attached, and other outbuildings, also a newly erected Brew-house, and Store-room, together with a Bowling Green, walled in, and an excellent Lead Pump, well supplied with water. Immediate possession. When sold in 1843 for £400 it included a Brewhouse at the back, 2 Stables and a Cellar. For Sale by Auction Wednesday 11th October 1871 - Part Freehold, part Copyhold. One of thirteen licensed house to be sold. A Bowling Green, on the opposite side of the road is recorded from 1807 to 1957.The house was damaged by enemy action 26th November 1944. Sales in final year of trading : - 86 1/8 barrels of beer. Licence held by S&P from closure 1958 to 6th May 1959 when surrendered in favour of new house at Thorpe, Norwich - Removal confirmed May 1960. (Thorpe house thought to be the CANARY, Heartsease, which opened 1961) Converted to a private house called `Sunbeams'. Pevsner, in Buildings of England gives following description - ` On way from Church to Quay, Sunbeams was an Inn c1710 - 1720'
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