DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Sheerness, December, 2025.

Page Updated:- Thursday, 11 December, 2025.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1827-

Upper White Horse

Latest 1827+

Blue Town

Sheerness

 

The following passage mentions an auction taking place at the "Upper White Horse."

With quite a few "White Horses" in Sheerness and no definitive address, some of these may be one and the same.

I have reference to a "Lower White Horse" in the High Street,  an "Old White Horse" in the High Street of Blue Town,  an "Upper White Horse" at Blue Town, and also a "White Horse" High Street, Blue Town, and another "White Horse" addressed as Mile Town.

 

From the Maidstone Gazette and West Kent Courier, 2 February, 1827.

To Brewers, Publicans, and others.

Blue Town, Sheerness.

To be sold by auction, by J. Attwater, on Thursday the 15th day of February, 1827, at the "Upper White Horse Inn," Sheerness, at 2 o'clock in the Afternoon, by order of the executors of Mr. E. Mackett, deceased.

A leasehold estate, in four lot.

Lot 1. Comprises all that substantially brick built public house and premises, called the "Navy Arms," desirably situated in the centre of a thickly populated neighbourhood, and now in full and free trade, containing seven good square rooms, an excellent dry cellar, with stable and out-houses detached, at an improved rental of £45 per annum.

Lot 2. Is a substantially brick built Tenament, adjoining Lot 1, containing two rooms, a back court, and out-houses, realizing a rental of 3s. 6d. per week.

Lot 3. Two timber and tiled-built Tenements, with two rooms to each, at a joint rental all of 7s. per week.

Lot 4. Two Stables, on a plot of ground 17 ft. 7 in. By 90 ft. adjoining Lot 1.

The whole are built on a piece of ground 60 ft by 90 ft.

 

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