| Licensees : |
| CAUDELL CLARKE |
1822 - 1850 |
GEORGE STANDLEY
age 46 in 1851
( George Stanley 1856 - & pork butcher ) |
1851 - 1856 |
CHARLES AYTON
& farmer 90 acres
( Mrs Sarah Ayton 1875
Mrs Charles Ayton 1877 ) |
* 1861 - 1878 |
| ALFRED SMITH |
1879 - 1908 |
| Mrs LUCY SMITH |
1912 - 1916 |
| SIDNEY JAMES SMITH |
1922 |
| FREDERICK TURNER |
1925 - 1937 |
| CHARLES ( Fred ) TURNER |
1973 |
| JAN & MARTIN SCOTT |
1999 - 2002 |
| MICK ....... & DEBBIE
..... |
2002 - |
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The Green Dragon bar |
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Dates vary regarding the age and original purpose.
Said to date from late 14thC or as late as the mid 15thC.
Thought to have been built as a hostel for the nearby monastery by some sources, but
Pevsner / Wilson attribute it as a mid 15thC hall house with a shop range at the front
with hall and domestic quarters behind.
`` Once connected by tunnel to Benedictine Monastery ''.
Left by landowner Thomas Randall to his grandsons in 1738, one of several houses in his
estate.
During the period January 1878 to October 1878 Mr Charles Ayton purchased goods from
Bullards to the value of £134/5/-, of which he had only paid £71/5/3d at the time of his
death. ( 1878 )
( The outstanding debt of £62/19/9d was paid following the death of Mrs. Ayton 26th March
1881 ).
``Most successful of Cann & Clarkes public houses''.
Prior to WWI the house did not sell mild beer -
`so as not to attract the lower classes'.
Morgans sales for 1960 were :-
65 barrels of beer
10 spirits. |
