Licensees :
SAMUEL ELLIS (age 85 in 1851)	1831 - 1851
JOHN MATTHEW WELLS	1854 - 1868
WILLIAM POMPEY GLAZEBROOK Died Tuesday 8th September 1885 having been suffering from the most painful affliction for the previous 3 or 4 years. - Age 50.	1869 - 1885
Mrs ANNE GLAZEBROOK	1885 - 1892
JAMES ALEXANDER DAVIDSON	1894 - 1896
HENRY DAVID POULTER	1900
EDITH ROSE GRAY HORA	by 1903
WILLIAM PERCIVAL JONES	03.12.1906
THOMAS CAMPBELL	04.11.1908
Edith Hora - manageress	(1909)
EDITH ROSE GRAY HORA	06.02.1911
GEORGE PINDER	03.05.1920
AMELIA KITSON	03.11.1924
LILIAN MAUD KITSON	01.03.1926
Fine of £1/10/- , plus 4/- costs, 02.04.1929 for selling out of hours. Fine of £2/4/- , 04.02.1935 for selling whisky diluted with water.
WILFRED HENRY BEHN	06.09.1948
DONALD GILCHRIST SUTHERLAND	02.07.1956
WILFRED HENRY BEHN	03.07.1961
JOHN BENNETT BUCHER (Full transfer confirmed 07.05.1962)	05.03.1962
RONALD JOHN NICHOLAS	04.12.1972
IAN & TRISHA RUSSELL	here 01.1980
WILFRED & MARIANNE FOYERS	c1982 - 1998+
NICK & ANNE ANDERSON	June 2001
CHRIS COUBROUGH	March 2003

c1910

Originally a boarding school, the frontage was added by the new owner, Samuel Ellis. The CROWN opened in 1831 as a hotel & meeting place.

Offered for sale by auction, Friday 9th May 1851, including a Billiard-room (then used as a meeting room for the magistrates), a Bowling Green with bar and public room and three arbours, and Garden Ground with hot-house and melon pit.

Advertised May 1955 as a Free, freehold 14 bedroom Hotel with Garage, Bowling Green and Gardens, for sale or to let on lease, with immediate possession.

In the GOOD PUB GUIDE 1998.

Renovations 2001 advertised to include renaming as :-
"Rococo's at the Crown''
and featuring the
"Jewel Bar & Brasserie''

Known as the CROWN from March 2003.