Above photo, date unknown.

From the Sussex Advertiser, Tuesday 19 September, 1865.

Application for spirit licence.

Mr. Walner appeared on behalf of John Cheeseman, the applicant, proprietor, and owner of the "Queen's Head" beer house, situated at Rowden Green, near Brenchley, for a spirit license. The house he said had been carried on as a beer house for about 25 years, and since that time had never had any complaints lodged against him. The house contain sufficient accommodation he believed, containing six bedrooms, with seven rooms downstairs. There were stables for three or four horses, and had room to build other stables. The nearest licence house was the "New Inn," at Yalding, about a mile and a quarter off. The next, the "Latinsford Chequers," about two miles off, and on the other side the "Maidstone Inn," which was nearly two miles off.

The appellant was in the course of his examination, and as no complaints had been lodged against the house, the bench desired Mr. Warner not proceed any further, as they felt convinced that the house had always been properly conducted, and they would grant a licence.

From http://www.twtowncrier.co.uk accessed 13 August 2018.

The Lost Pubs around Paddock Wood: Part One.

“The Hostelries of Paddock Wood”

The next pub on our journey through Queen Street was the "Queen’s Head," the landlord of which in 1841 was John Cheesman. He was still there in 1851 by which time, and for some unknown reason, the name was changed to the King’s Head. In the census of 1861 there is no mention of the pub as such but perhaps the enumerator was an avid teetotaller as according to him there were no licensed houses whatsoever in Queen Street! (I believe the mention of the "King's Head" is in fact a mistake on behalf of the recorder in this year. Paul Skelton.) But by 1871 the inn had reverted to its earlier name of the Queen’s Head, the then landlord being James Hobbs. A succession of landlords followed over the years but by 1922 the licence passed to the Haffenden family who ran the pub until well after the second world war. (The brewers being Kelsey of Tunbridge Wells.) The Queen’s Head finally closed most probably in the late 1970s or early 1980s and is now a private house called “The Haven”.