Identified as the UNICORN
to at least 1841.
( The Register of Electors, 1841 to 1851 continues to identify the house
as the Unicorn.)
Recorded in 1846 Post Office Directory as W. Pearce at the
BOARS
HEAD
Offered For Sale as the BOAR'S
HEAD, 10th January 1850.
Location given as "Near Denmark's Farm, on the Sprowston Road, about
five minutes walk of Magdalen Gate",
Twenty Four brick and tile Cottages also in the sale.
The entire Estate had been erected by William Pearce as an
investment.
William Pearce is given in the 1851 census as being a publican
at Wroxham Road, Sprowston, St. Faiths.
Sharing home with Charlotte Campling, 65, housekeeper.
Not the same as the
BLUE BOAR.