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WINDMILL NORWICH W Index Thorpe Hamlet
Windmill
KNOX ROAD
PLUMSTEAD ROAD
THORPE HAMLET BEERHOUSE
later FULL LICENCE
CLOSED 02.2020
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/2 to PS 1/8/4 (1894 to 1965)
LACONS  
WHITBREAD  
GREENE KING by 1987 to 2016
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Licensees :
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STEPHEN THURSBY by 1881 - 1883
WILLIAM HOTTER 1888
ARTHUR GILBERT RAYNER 12.11.1901
CHARLES YAXLEY 01.09.1903
DONALD ANTHONY FIDDY 14.06.1910
THOMAS GRAMSON 05.02.1924
FREDERICK JOHN ROBERTS 08.10.1929
RICHARD BAXTER 09.07.1946
ROGER PEASE
(Bob & Shirley)
 10.02.1987
DAVID GEORGE WARNER 11.05.1999
DAVID GEORGE WARNER &
ODETTE TURNER
12.10.1999
JOHN KEVIN SAWARD &
KIM ANGELA WHITTAKER
14.12.1999
PETER JENNINGS 28.03.2007
ANDY & BARBARA CRADOCK 05.2012
FELIX & LISA SNELL from 2015


15th February 1998
1998

Licence transferred 7th February 1922 to new house, adjoining the old house.

Full licence granted 7th March 1933

 

Brewers Greene King obtained planning permission to build dwellings on the extensive car park by November 2016.
Public House offered for sale.

Future uncertain.....

Sold by Greene King August 2017.

Closed and offered for sale October 2020

Plans approved February 2023 for conversion into a private home.

 

  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
Back 1921 - Front 1930's No 4 4 Yes
Extension at east end is 1930's with some interesting features.
Porch with decorative down-pipes with windmill design at top.
Decorative brickwork, strip windows.
Two rooms with central bar.
Doors and woodwork in front bar original.
Fanciful painting by G. Bates at back of bar shows Mousehold with windmill.
Used to be a Victorian two-storey building- either replaced or completely adapted in 1921.