Maidstone Road

Matfield

Brenchley

Built in 1602 as a dwelling that formed part of a considerable estate. In 1651 it was bought and occupied by Daniel Carter who was a grocer and baker and the premises had a sign hung depicting a Sugar Loaf, for centuries indicating a grocers.

In 1729, Thomas Daulton Sage also a grocer and baker owned and lived in the building.

Twenty years later in 1749 Nathan Lockyer, grocer and beer retailer owned the place and carried out alterations, removing the thatch roof and wattle and daub walls, replacing them with a tiled roof and weatherboard facade and installed a counter at the southern extreme of the lower floor. Still operating as a grocer and baker, his wife Ann, ran the ale house as Tapster.

Ira Huggett purchased the premises in 1848. He was a wheelwright by trade and in 1850 changed the name of the pub to the "Wheelwrights Arms."

LICENSEE LIST

HUGGETT Ira 1848-50+