| Licensees : |
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| WILLIAM
BRINDED |
1789 |
| - |
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| - |
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| JAMES SMITH |
1830 |
JOSEPH SMITH
& coal dealer 1850
age 53 in 1851
& gardener |
1836 - 1861 |
| Mrs M. A. SMITH |
1865 - 1869 |
PHILIP FROST
& brickmaker |
by 1871 |
| FREDERICK WILLIAM TIBBS |
10.07.1876 |
WILLIAM JAMES HARPER
& coal merchant |
by 1877 |
| Mrs
CATHERINE HARPER |
by 1888 |
| WALTER ALFRED MOORE |
22.11.1915 |
WALTER PERCY MOORE
(Wally) |
26.11.1934
to c1950 |
TED &
DAPHNE RUTTER
(Went to Coach & Horses, Thorpe Road) |
to 1964 |
| JACK & CONNIE QUINNEY |
from 1964 |
| PATSY
DASHWOOD |
1982 - June
2005 |
| VANESSA
MARTIN & PETER SCOTT |
From June
2005 |
| Closed |
2008 |
ANDY HAGUE & KATE BRANFORD
managers |
11 2008 |
| DAVE TUMBER |
October 2010 |
| Closed |
Aug - Nov
2014 |
RUSSELL EVANS &
JOHN LINFORD
(LAURENCE KITSON - manager) |
Dec 2014 - 22.10.2017 |
VICTORIA & GRAHAME MacDONALD
(EMMA BULLOCK
manager) |
11.2017 |
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1998
.
Grade II listed building said to date from 12thC.
Recorded in Register of Blofield, Taverham & Walsham Hundred licensed houses taken 9th September
1789.
Renovated internally 2005.
Features :-
Beer garden.
Food.
November 2008 - new licensee Gordon Thwaites takes
over following a three week closure. He also runs the
HARTE
in Costessey, the
FORGE,
Wymondham
WINDMILL and Loddon
SWAN.
Part of the Indulge group of houses by 2011. Other
houses in the group include the
LANGTRY and
the MULBERRY
October 2017 - Enterprise Inns, trading as the Ei
Group, terminate the tenancy at will of the current licensee(s) and
house to close Sunday 22nd October. Ei Group state their intention "to
re-open the house as soon as possible".
November 2017 - To re-open Friday 24th November 2017 with new tenants.
Lessees Victoria and Grahame MacDonald who also run the
CELLAR HOUSE
at Eaton,
WHITE
LODGE at Attleborough and the
OLD RAM
at Tivetshall St. Mary.
Closed by 14th May 2019 and offered for sale by Ei - £350,000.
Entered to be auctioned September 2019 with a guide
price of £290,000.
Advertised December 2019 as being available to rent.
Proposal July 2022 to reopen, but with Cafe and Nail Bar included....
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