Originally building was built c1814 and was used as a subscription reading room. Bathing
facilities were added c1824.
Present building dates from 1836 when rebuilt following destruction by a storm.
As a bath house it was also the family home of school teacher Simeon Simons, until his
death in 1867 when it was sold to Henry Rust.
The house was next owned by brewer and wine merchant James Chapman who, in 1872, converted
the building into a hotel and added the western wing, for use as a billiards room.
Morgans sales for 1960 were : -
107 barrels of beer &
51 spirits.
Closed (Temporarily?) by 2001 |
