Licensees :
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JOHN DAYNES	by 1866
Fine of 1s and costs November 1866 - See opposite.
THOMAS ALLEN	10.10.1871
SAMUEL MITSON	16.12.1881
WALTER COE	25.06.1895
JOHN ISAAC HART BOWGEN	05.04.1928
EDWARD CHARLES GRAY	19.07.1938
WALTER WILLIAM LINCOLN	14.02.1939
ARTHUR WILLIAM ANDERSON	07.04.1959
MARY EVE ANDERSON-COWLES	29.11.1983
VALERIE & JOHN ARTHUR THRAXTON	15.03.1988
KEITH & PAM DERRY managers	03.1988
DAVID & CAROL SEAMAN	04.1989
ELIZABETH & ARTHUR LESLIE HAUGHTON	09.01.1990
JOHN GEORGE MARKHAM & LINDA DAWN COFFEY	09.07.1991
JOHN MONKMAN manager	10.1993
PATRICK MOORE & NEIL SHARPE	14.02.1995
IAN & LORRAINE STOLADY	09.01.1996
ANITA KIRK manager	05.1996
DENNIS MONEY & JULIE SUSAN CASHEN	17.12.1996
DIANE HANNANT & NEIL SHARPE	17.06.1997
JOHN CHARLES GATES Died 5th July 2023	14.10.1997 - 2023
Closed 2023
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19.05.1939
Image by George Plunkett - shown by permission - Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2002

Beerhouse keeper John Daynes was fined 1s and costs on Wednesday 7th November 1866 for having house open before half-past twelve on the previous Sunday.

Landlord John Daynes was accused of keeping his house open on Sunday 13th January 1867, at prohibited hours. Although people had been found drinking in the house, it was admitted that none of the doors were open or unlocked. Since the prosecutor had to show that the house was open and it was plainly closed, the case was dismissed.

Full licence granted Tuesday 25th August 1868 upon it being heard that the previous year it had been refused on the grounds of past summonses, but the house had been well conducted for the past year.

A fire insurance policy, taken out by Morgans, dated 1878 gives the address as Earlham Road.

Also found in August 1871 as the GATEHOUSE, Hellesdon, when a complaint was made against licensee Daynes for assault.

Listed as the HANGING GATE 1877

 Samuel Mitson made an application, on Monday 24th August 1891, for a music and singing licence.  The Chief Constable opposed on the grounds that there were pleasure gardens attached to the premises  and did not consider it a proper place for a licence, certainly it was not required.
The Bench refused the application.

Found as the GATE to c1894, as the GATE HOUSE after 1894.

Original house destroyed by fire.
Present building built 1934.

Damaged by enemy action 27/29.04.1942

Morgans sales for 1960 were :-
315 barrels of beer
86 spirits (gallons)

Offered for sale November 1996 - £125,000 + vat.

Granted Grade II listing by English Heritage in August 2015.

Closed by April 2023 owing to the illness of the licensee.