The Rose & Crown Inn (SLHS RCP 007)
| Photo ID #: | 2200 | |
| Description: | The orginal Rose & Crown is the lower part on the left - now four separate houses | |
| Category: | Pubs & Taverns | |
| Location: | Pubs & Taverns - The Rose & Crown | |
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The original Rose & Crown is believed to have been built in the 17th century, possibly earlier, and was a small wayside inn/tavern.
Part of the original building was built of stone and remains incorporated within the present day house and include rafters that are virtually tree trunks, which were never machined.
Sometime in the very early 1800’s the original inn was extended with brickwork so providing extra accommodation/space. Later in the early part of the century a further large extension was built providing additional 10-15 rooms for accommodation to cater for the influx of travellers and workers. Bills, invoices and receipts found in the loft space suggest that the premises continued to prosper until it finally closed in/or around 1910.
Today the Rose & Crown Inn buildings are divided into four (4) residential properties. The old washhouses and the shells of 3 ‘privy’ toilets still remain and are now used for storage. The ‘privy’s’ were shared by the inhabitants of the inn and were no more than a wooden bench with a hole in it over a brick built ash pit.
Various articles found within the curtilage of the inn include a roman/Viking coin; lead figurine; early Portuguese gold coin; early private brass post box plaque, remnants of an early Christmas card,; clay pipe stems, some produced locally, Pinxton and Langley Pottery; salt-glaze flask; green bottles and other artefacts from early times.
Portuguese coins: During excavation work the occupant was digging up a tree root, to put in a pond, found in the trunk two coins of Brazilian/Portuguese origin. An expert believes a traveller left the coins in the tree trunk to avoid being robbed whilst in the inn and something possibly happened and the two coins were left behind.