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East Street
Hunton
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above photo, date unknown, kindly supplied by Denise Butcher. |
Above postcard, date unknown, kindly sent by Debi Birkin. |
Above photo, date unknown, kindly sent by Debi Birkin. |
Above Google image, January 2009. |
Rear of Bull Inn, August 2009. |
 
Above aluminium card issued May 1949. Sign
series 1 number 44. |
The only reference I have found so far for this pub is in the Pigot's
Directory of 1832. Further research has found the following:-
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From South Eastern Gazette 05 February 1861.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
To be heard at the Sessions House, Maidstone, before
the Judge of the County Court of Kent, on Wednesday, the Twelfth day
February, 1861, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely. George
Day, formerly of the "Bull Inn," Hunton, Kent, licensed victualler
and farmer; then of the Clock House Farm, Hunton, Kent, farmer; and then
late of East Farleigh, Kent, of no business or employ. Charles Morgan, Insolvents' Attorney, Maidstone. |
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Maidstone Telegraph 23 February 1861.
MAIDSTONE INSOLVENT COURT.
Feb. 20. - (Before J. Espinasse, Esq.)
George Day, of the "Bull Inn," Hunton, Kent, Licensed victualler. Mr.
Morgan supported the petitioner.
Discharged forthwith.
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From the Maidstone Telegraph, Rochester and Chatham Gazette, 19 October 1861.
Hunton. Fatal Accident.
An inquest was held on Thursday afternoon, at the "Bull Inn," on the
body of a young woman named Sarah Hodges, age 22, who had lived with her
widowed mother in this village, and who lost her life on the previous
Tuesday evening, in a very remarkable manner. The circumstances created
a large amount of interest in the neighbourhood.
Walter Reeves, labourer, said:- I know the deceased. On the 7th inst.,
she left word with her mother that she was going to Dean Street, and
that she wished me to go to a meet her in the evening. I did so, and we
met near the top of Hunton Hill, about 7 o'clock, it then being dark. I
turned back with her to a gate at the top of the hill, on the right hand
side, which led into some fields and a hop garden. On coming to the gate
deceased said "Let us turn in here," but I said "I don't know much about
the way, surely you're wrong." She replied "Oh, no, I'm not; this is the
way; I always come this way." We then walked on, deceased leading the
way, and when we got some distance down the road she stepped forward and
I heard her fall with a tremendous crash onto the road, where she lay
groaning. I then stepped on to the bank, and seeing that I could not get
down, I ran round as fast as I could. I asked her to speak, but she
could not for some little time. She then said, "Pick me up, William,
pick me up." I said, "Can't you speak again," but she did not answer me.
I then went to a house of a man named Hatch, close to where the accident
happened, and Hatch came with a light. After this the deceased breathed
twice, and then died. I was so much put out that I did not notice at the
time the distance the deceased the fallen. She had not got off my arm
when she fell, by her saying she knew the way I let her go first. There
was no path there.
Mr. Prout, surgeon, of Yalding, said:- On the night in question he was
called to see the deceased, soon after 8 o'clock. He found hey lying in
the road quite dead. He examined her, and found she had sustained a
fracture of the skull at the top of the head; leaving no doubt she
pitched down head first. Finding her dead he did not examine her further
that night, but on the following day he found no bones broken.
On the above evidence the verdict of "Accidental Death" was recorded.
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Kent Times, 7 June 1862.
Stealing Crockery-ware.
Samuel Trimmer, chimney sweep, and Sarah Wilson, a woman travelling
about with him, were charged with stealing seven earthenware plates,
value 9d., the property of Henry Moseley, at Hunton, on the 22nd
May.
The woman pleaded guilty.
The parties were at the "Bull Inn," Hunton, on the 22nd ult. They
were both drunk, and shortly before the man left, the woman having
gone on before, the landlady, (Mrs. Moseley) missed from a crate
seven small plates, which she had seen a few minutes before. The
male prisoner was putting his bundle upon his back when Mrs. Moseley
heard the rattle of the plates, and a policeman being sent for, the
missing articles were found in the bundle.
Wilson said the man was perfectly innocent, he knew nothing of her
having put the plates into the bundle, and she should not have done
so had she not been very drunk.
They were committed for trial, the woman having been previously
convicted of felony.
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Kent Times, 5 July 1862.
Stealing Plate At Hunton.
Samuel Trimmer, chimney sweeper, and Sarah Wilson, washerwoman,
widow, were indicted with stealing 7 plates value 9d., the property
of Henry Moseley, at Hunton on the 22nd May.
The female prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. F. G. Smith appeared for the prosecution, and from his opening
of the case it transpired that on the day in question the two
prisoners were travelling together and called at the "Bull Inn"
Hunton, to have some gin. Near the door there was a hamper of plates
just arrived for the prosecutor from Maidstone, and on opening it
seven of them were missed. They were afterwards found in a parcel
belonging to the prisoner Trimmer which he left at the "Bull." He.
however, denied all knowledge of how they came to be there.
The male, prisoner was sentenced to six weeks hard labour, and the
female prisoner, against whom there was a former conviction, also to
six months hard labour.
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Maidstone Telegraph 03 October 1863.
MALLING, WEST. SPECIAL SESSIONS.
These sessions were held at the assembly rooms on Monday, before Col.
Fletcher (in the chair), J. Rigge and J. Savage, Esqrs.
Cornelius Shannon, Daniel Lyons, and Mark Sullivan, Irish hoppers, were
brought up in custody, charged with a violent assault upon Henry
Moseley, at Hunton, on the 24th Sept.
The prosecutor, who is landlord of the "Bull Inn," Hunton, said that on
24th Sept. the prisoners, together with a number of men, women and
children, were at his house drinking. One of them called for a pot of
porter, with which he served them, and he received a sovereign in
payment. On taking in the change, there was a dispute on its
correctness, and a witness was called to see it counted out on the
table. The witness said the change was correct, and he then received an
order for another quart of beer, which he was about to execute, when
Sullivan jumped over the table, and caught hold of him, while another
person interfered and prevented his getting out of the door. They had a
struggle and he at length got out. The scuffle continued both inside and
outside the house, and he was knocked about most seriously. He was at
length assisted by the parish constable, who was himself knocked down
and stunned. The prisoners were at length overpowered and secured.
They were all committed for trial, Sullivan stating that he did not
interfere in the row, but that his mother was knocked down and much
injured; so much so that she was obliged to be removed to the hospital
at Maidstone.
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Western Times 29 May 1942.
BREVITIES. CAT and CHICKS.
A cat is "mothering" chicks at the "Bull Inn," Hunton, Kent.
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The premises is now called the "Old Bull House" and it gained a grade 2 listing on
26th February 1987 and is describes as the following:- "Formerly public
house, now house. Early-to-mid C17 with later alterations, restored in later
C20. Timber-framed. Main range weather-boarded, wing pebble-dashed. Plain
tile roof. Main range of 4 timber-framed bays including stack bay, with
cross-wing of 1½ bays projecting forwards to right. Main range 1½ storeys,
cross-wing 2 storeys and garret. Rendered plinth. Roof of main range hipped
to left with gablet, cross-wing half-hipped. Multiple brick ridge stack at
junction of main range and wing. Irregular fenestration of one small gabled
dormer to main range and one C20 2-light casement to first floor of wing.
C20 half-glazed door towards left end of main range. Later single-storey
weather-boarded addition to left. Interior: exposed framing. Blocked diamond
mullion first floor window to rear of left timber-framed bay. Small
inglenook fireplace. Clasped purlin common rafter roof. Curved queen struts
to main range.
LICENSEE LIST
POPE George 1832+
DAY George 1841-61 (age 33 in 1851 )
(also farmer in 1858)
MOSELEY Henry 1861-63+ (age 36 in 1861)
GILBERT John 1871-1903+ (age 52 in 1871)
GILBERT Harry E 1911+ (age 30 in 1911)
From
the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
Census
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
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