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131 DEREHAM ROAD
 OLD PALACE ROAD / Holl Lane		 HEIGHAM BEERHOUSE to 1857
FULL LICENCE		 CLOSED 27.05.1992
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/1 to PS 1/8/4 (1867 to 1965)
BULLARDS  
WATNEY MANN  
NORWICH BREWERY  
COURAGE as given 1992
Licensees :
JONATHAN BURDETT from 1855
SAMUEL HENRY RUSSELL 11.05.1869
JOSEPH MACE 05.10.1870
JOHN TENCH 30.01.1872
GEORGE GREEN 10.10.1881
JOSEPH FIELD 15.11.1898
GEORGE ARTHUR FIELD 05.04.1907
ARTHUR HENRY SMITH 12.10.1909
WILLIAM THOMAS CHEESEMAN 06.04.1915
Convicted 29.05.1916 of failing to close against soldiers.
Fine £1 or 13 days detention.
HENRIETTA CHEESEMAN 25.08.1925
Convicted 04.02.1927 of selling out of hours.
Fine £2 or 21 days detention.
CHARLES EDMUND SMITHERS 10.05.1927
Trade continued in `The Hut' until new house completed 1955
REGINALD JOHN PILGRIM 08.02.1966
Mrs PAULINE PILGRIM 24.11.1970
BERNARD CANHAM 04.01.1972
IAN ROPE 11.09.1984
MICHAEL RODNEY ANDREWS 25.11.1986
PAUL WALLER 10.05.1988
GEORGE MICHAEL LANSDOWNE 19.05.1991
LESLIE BALLS &
GAVIN SMITH		 17.03.1992



1985
1985 - the entrance porch just added.

Application for new (full) licence applied for by Jonathan Burdett,  28th August 1855. Refused, .

Application for full licence made Tuesday 2nd September 1856 by Jonathan Burdett - Refused.

Jonathan Burdett successfully applied for a new (full) licence 1st September 1857.

Destroyed by enemy action 27/29.04.1942.

February 1948
The hut - 1948.

Trading restarted in a wooden hut.
The house was rebuilt and opened 1955.

Closed 27th May 1992
Offered For Sale by direction of Metropolitan Estates Ltd.
Freehold & Contents at offers on £155,000 (plus VAT)
("No trade represented or sold")


Became a car audio shop, later a supermarket.


  In 1961 the BYSTANDERS FILM CLUB commenced a survey of Norwich public houses.
Unfortunately, by 1968 the challenge remained unfinished and Watney Mann had taken over the local breweries....Toilet facilities (Conveniences) were rated on cleanliness and general standard.
This house was rated as follows:-		  
 
Bullards No Draught Cider
Darts Conveniences 3 (5 being the best)
Parking  
Don't like.
Nauseatingly post war in taste.
Neo God knows what.
Je ne sais quoi. *Ugh!
Much scribbling on toilet walls.
* Brewery's fault.
 

 

  The Norwich Pub Survey of 1986, compiled by the Norwich Society, in association with Norwich City Council, assessed the house:-  
 
Approx date of building Listed Quality Pre-war fittings surviving
External Internal
1950's No 5 1 No
Three rooms, bar, lounge and retail.
Modern fittings throughout.