Two cottages here in the 1650s were replaced in the early 18th century by a single farmstead, where malting was carried out long before the establi
This site formerly included two cottages, shown in 1920s photographs.
Several houses at Witney Street's north-west end (before the modern cul-de-sac of Sylvester Close) began as outbuildings for premises on High Stree
By 1753 this building was the Chequers inn, still open in 1782.
In the 17th and early 18th centuries this was the Star Inn, owned and sometimes occupied by members of the Taylor family.
Externally there are few clues to the age and interest of this building.
The house has 17th-century origins, and in 1703 was owned by a carpenter and apparently let as four properties.
Though substantially rebuilt, these two small cottages and two adjoining houses originated probably as two neighbouring medieval houses. Nos.
In the late 17th and 18th centuries this may have been the Quart Pot inn, and by 1830 it was the New Inn.
From the late 18th century to c.1918 this was the Rose and Crown inn.
