An alehouse by 1756, when the lease was owned by Abraham Leman.

Horatio Walpole bought the ‘alehouse at Itteringham with orchard and 5 acres of land’ for £400

Abraham Leman relinquished the lease to widow Smith c.1768; she passed it to John Smith (her son?) in 1769 – the inventory included the fruit trees and ‘on the bowling green an old table or stand and three seats within an arbor’. By this date it was known as the Artichoke and was a thatched building. Significant bills from bricklayer and carpenter in 1778 suggest that it was renovated/extended at that date.

<Thanks to Christopher Pipe for the above information>

W. Bush, servant to Messrs. Bircham of Reepham, brewers, was committed to the County Gaol June 1813 on suspicion of defrauding his masters of £30 received from J. Smith, innkeeper of Itteringham. (Artichoke?)

The Norfolk Chronicles of 23rd & 30th September 1820 carried news of a sale by auction at the Artichoke on Tuesday 3rd October 1820 a Well-built Double Cottage, occupied by John Read, also over an acre of land, and the produce growing thereon, occupied by Mr Blomfield, proprietor, were to be sold at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

Became the WALPOLE ARMS by 1821.