Houses in High Street probably on the site of the Three Cups

The Three Cups was recorded as having four burgage rights in the marsh in 1753 and paid more land tax than any other inn apart from the Ship. It was a large building east of High Street immediately north of the Red Lion with two large courtyards. The Allercott family owned it, and leased the Red Lion, until 1784 or later. Joan Allercott, the last of the family, married into the Strong family of coopers who had previously kept the Angel and the Swan. Her son William kept the inn but had given it up by 1788. He and his son George moved to London as victuallers and in 1796 George Allercott Strong sold the former inn to John Fownes Luttrell as a house. It was reopened shortly afterwards by the Hossum family until 1832 or later. The large second courtyard was demolished before 1840.