Located on the corner of Back Lane
Advertised To Let 24th September 1898, with nine Acres of Land.
Available from Michaelmas 1898.
Apply Morgans Brewery Co.
Approval was given for structural alterations to the house at the
licensing sessions held Monday 5th February 1906.
The changes involved removing a partition that separated the tap room from
the kitchen in order to create a large room providing better accommodation
for the tenant. A door was to be knocked through to take in two more rooms.
The accommodation for the tenant, prior to the renovations, consisted of a
cellar at the back which was used partially as a scullery and partly as a
cellar. There was a sitting-room and a bedroom. On the second floor was a
second bedroom and an attic. Drinks were served in the tap room and in the
kitchen. The larger room would not increase the licensed area, but would be
more convenient.
Only found named in the 1901 census, 1906 licensing session and
in 1915 Register of Electors, where two occupants are given.
Also named 31st August 1916, in a list of beerhouses, subject to closure
by compensation.
Average trade for each of the years 1912, 193 and 1914 was 88 barrels
of beer, with 396 dozens of bottled beer and 97 dozens of mineral
waters.
On Friday 22nd December 1916 it was heard that the
house had been closed, but a few days previously. The owners said they
were unaware that the house had closed.
It was said that, owing to the war, the house had lost both the owner
and the tenant. The owner going on service in the army just at the
time he might have taken over the house in order to save it from
closure.
The house had originally been two cottages, it would be converted back
to that state.
Compensation fixed at £500,
10 per cent to be paid to the tenant and the remainder to the
owner.
