BRIDGE HOUSE - DOWNHAM MARKET

16 July 1743 : To be Lett at DOWNHAM-BRIDGE in Norfolk where the BUTTER-MARKET is kept.
A large and commodious PUBLICK HOUSE with a good brewhouse , two Stables, and several Warehouses together with the Tolls of the said Bridge

26th March 1791 : PUBLICK HOUSE & TOLL To Be Lett. Premises to be entered 5th April 1791.

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Stood at the opposite end of the bridge from the toll house.
Owned by the Bridge Reeves.

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Advertised to let for 7 years, April 1804. Then in the occupation of Messrs. Herbert & Hogg. `Also with the tolls of Downham Bridge'.

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Offered For Sale on Monday 24th June 1811, then in the occupation of Valentine Cranefield, the tenure of Herbert & Co.

Offered To Let, for seven years, to the best Bidder, from 11th October 1811. In the tenure of Messrs. Herbert & Co. with warehouses, brewhouse, stables for near twenty horses, yards and garden, altogether about 3A 3R.

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Offered To Let July 1828, including 4 acres of land.
Then supplied by Mr. Nathan Gray, Common Brewer of March, Isle of Ely.

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Offered To Let September 1839. Described as `Lately rebuilt with excellent Stables and convenient Homestead'.

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Appears to be trading as a beerhouse from c1892.

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Lot No. 14 in the sale by auction of Church Lands, the Bridge Estate and Batchcroft Charity Lands, Friday, 5th August 1904.
With Stables, Outbuildings and Yard, and Garden adjoining containing 2r 37p.
Withdrawn from sale and later Let by Private Treaty.

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Closed 1967 By S&P as being uneconomic.
55¼ barrels sold in year prior to closure.