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CROWN HOTEL WELLS next the Sea index
BUTTLANDS NORTH GREENHOE HUNDRED FULL LICENCE
NORTH GREENHOE LICENCE REGISTERS PS 27/8/1 to PS 27/8/2 ( 1903 - 1975 )
SAMUEL ELLIS from 1831 R. J. NICHOLAS c1972
ETHEL MAUD GRAY HORD of Wells by 1903 MINOTEL GROUP by 1989
LILIAN MAUD KITSON of Wells c1926 NICK & ANNE ANDERSON From June 2001
CROWN HOTEL Wells Ltd    CHRIS COUBROUGH March 2003
J. B. BUTCHER c1962    
Licensees :
SAMUEL ELLIS
( age 85 in 1851 )
1831 - 1851
JOHN MATTHEW WELLS 1854 - 1865
WILLIAM POMPEY GLAZEBROOK 1869 - 1883
Mrs ANNE GLAZEBROOK 1888 - 1892
EDITH ROSE GRAY HORA by 1903
WILLIAM PERCIVAL JONES 03.12.1906
THOMAS CAMPBELL 04.11.1908
Edith Hora - manageress ( 1909 )
EDITH ROSE GRAY HORD ( Hora ? ) 06.02.1911
GEORGE PINDER 03.05.1920
AMELIA KITSON 03.11.1924
LILIAN MAUD KITSON 01.03.1926
Fine of £1/10/- , plus 4/- costs, 02.04.1929 for selling out of hours.
Fine of £2/4/- , 04.02.1935 for selling whisky diluted with water.
WILFRED HENRY BEHN 06.09.1948
DONALD GILCHRIST SUTHERLAND 02.07.1956
WILFRED HENRY BEHN 03.07.1961
JOHN BENNETT BUCHER 05.03.1962
RONALD JOHN NICHOLAS 04.12.1972
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WILFRED FOYERS by 1998
NICK & ANNE ANDERSON June 2001
CHRIS COUBROUGH March 2003

Originally a boarding school, the frontage was added by the new owner, Samuel Ellis. The CROWN opened in 1831 as a hotel & meeting place.

The house is described as a Tudor building with a Georgian facade.

In the GOOD PUB GUIDE 1998.

Renovations 2001 advertised to include renaming as :-
``Rococo's at the Crown''
and featuring the
``Jewel Bar & Brasserie''

Known as the CROWN from March 2003.