Licensees :
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ROBERT CLAXTON age 56 in 1851	*1851 - 1871
Monday 26th May 1851 - Fine of 40s and 9s 6d costs for selling out of hours. See below.
Monday 27th April 1856 - Fine of 10s and costs for being open out of hours. See below.
JONATHAN SYMONDS & carpenter	*1872 - 1887
JAMES EGGLETON	*1888 - *1896
ROBERT DODMAN	by 10.1896
EDWARD HENRY ROBOTHAM Licence confirmed 30.11.1903	26.10.1903
SIDNEY GREEN	31.10.1904
Monday 30th April 1906 - SYDNEY BONE fined 20s and 4s costs for serving a drunken person on Monday 16th April. < Is Sydney Bone a reporting error? He is not mentioned in licence register, or is Sidney Green a transcription error?>
JOHN BUNN	29.10.1906
JESSIE MAUD BUNN	29.01.1923
MARGARET & WALTER BUNN	30.04.1973
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At the Fakenham Petty Sessions 26th May 1851 it was heard that persons had been found drinking in the house after 10:00pm on the 17th May.
Mr. Claxton admitted that beer had been drunk, but claimed it had been drawn before the official closing time and asked that the magistrates be lenient. It was apparently not his first offence, so he was convicted with the full penalty.

On the 17th April 1856, a policeman heard noises coming from the house at twenty-five minutes past ten o'clock.
Inside he found several persons, some of whom were said to be lodgers. One was a soldier who had been at Sebastopol and had doubtless given glowing descriptions of many a Crimean hero, which would have been quite sufficient to cause even Boniface himself to forget the hours of closing.
Before the magistrates on Monday 28th April it was said that there would be no favour to lodgers and Mr. Claxton was fined 10s and costs.