BLACK HORSE Pub of Pembury

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Page Updated:- Monday, 21 October, 2024.

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Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

Black Horse

Open 2020+

12 High Street

Pembury

01892 822141

https://whatpub.com/black-horse

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo, date unknown, kindly supplied by Tony Nichols of the Pembury History website.

Above photo, 1990, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photos by Paul Skelton 11 April 2011.

Above photo March 2015 by Brian Curtis.

According to the www.pembury.org web, the current building can be dated to 1801, and is known to have held this name since 1840, but there was a previous building on the site in the 16th century when it was selling cider. The premises known as the "Black Horse" is first recorded in the census of 1871. The house finally gained its beer license in 1906 when it operated as an Inn.

I am informed that licensee Edward Maynard died in March 1919, (although he's still listed as being there in the Post Office directory of 1922,) leaving £533, the contents of his estate in his will.

In 1985 the premises was extended when it took over the electricity substation next door which allowed it to operate a restaurant. This was again extended in 2000 when a new kitchen was built and the old restaurant merged with a new one and conservatory added.

From the Tithe Schedule (c 1840) Kathryn Franklin notes 2016

‘House & garden’, tenant William Allcock. It was the only property in Pembury owned by Samuel Windes. There is no mention of it being a beerhouse, and there is no indication whether the building is new or not. In 1841 census tenant is William Alcock (bn c1800) & his occupation is ‘beershop’.

From the Kent and Sussex Courier, 9 January, 1880.

PEMBURY LICENSING. Thorne.

Mr. Barden applied for the licence of the “Black Horse Inn”, Pembury, to be transferred to him from Mr. Luke Weston.

The application was adjourned for further inquiries to be made respecting the applicants character.

From an in-house magazine. 1985.

THE BLACK HORSE.

According to the present (1985) owner, Mr. Robert Burrows, in the late 16th century a cider house stood on the present site. It occupied what is now the western or front half of the present two-storey building, and fronted on to a cart track, the course of the modem day Pembury High Street.

According to the deeds, the owner, and his predecessor Mr. Mark Waddington, the place was rebuilt in 1801 and became the present building. The eastern half of the ground floor is now a bar, with a cellar beneath it and the remnants of a stone stairway; this part of the ground floor was previously living accommodation. The western half of the ground floor served as the cider house, for which a licence was granted the same year. The whole first floor was living accommodation at the time, as it has been ever since. By about 1841 it was known as a Beer Shop called the Black Horse, owned by Sam Winder, the tenant being William Alcock.

In the early part of the 20th century (believed 1906 or thereabouts) the premises were licensed as an Ale House and acquired the title of Inn. The single storey extensions to the north and west sides were added between 1801 and 1900. In 1871 the tenant was John W. Cox - carpenter and beer retailer. He employed four men, and let lodgings to another four persons.