The Three Tuns
The earliest recorded inn in Welton le Marsh was the ‘Three Tuns’. It is not known where this was situated but there is evidence of an inn in one of the houses next to the post office. The for sale advertisement below, shows that the Three Tuns was open until at least 1829.
Inn on Sea Road
The map of 1792 identifies two fields as “North Inn Field” (plot 207) and “South Inn Field” (Plot 208), whilst the adjoining small plot (206) on Sea Road (the current road to Habertoft and Orby) has at least two buildings, so is quite likely the site of this Inn. Today this plot is occupied by “Boothby Farmhouse”, a Georgian building, so may have been an inn at an earlier date.
“Boothby Farmhouse” is a grade II listed building, for which the following details are recorded by Historic England: Farmhouse. Late C18. Red brick in English bond. Pantile roof
with brick coped gables, 2 gable brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storey, 3 bay front with corbelled eaves band. Central planked door flanked by single glazing bar sashes now boarded. To first floor are 3 similar windows. All openings have segmental brick heads. To the rear a service wing with outshut to dairy. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1280940
The Wheel Inn
The ‘Wheel Inn’ is currently the only pub in the village. It was first mentioned in ‘White’s’ Directory in 1856. It was originally a pair of semi-detached cottages, which were then joined up internally and the right hand door was filled in.
Wharram Brewery
Matthias Wharram had entered into partnership with Thomas Everard Walls, a local farmer (the son of a vicar), by 1896 – the Stamford Mercury of 25 Sep 1896 carried a notice dissolving the partnership following Wharram’s cycling accident the previous month. In February 1897 Walls bought an un-named brewery in Burgh (I suspect that must be the former Wharram brewery), the White Hart and the White Swan in Burgh and Hildred’s Hotel in Skegness (which would have been a large and presumably profitable business) for £8,000. When the Kiln House brewery was sold in August 1903, Walls (trading as Wharram & Co) was the purchaser, the lot including four pubs in and around Burgh. Walls bought a few more pubs so that by the time of his retirement in 1920 the estate consisted of 15 houses as well as other properties and land. These were all sold in August 1920. According to the Lincs Standard (21 Aug 1920) the only properties then sold to Batemans were the brewery itself, the Wheel at Welton le Marsh and the Red Lion at Burgh, but others were ‘withdrawn’ which usually means a subsequent off-auction sale, so others may have passed to Batemans, although at the time Batemans were a relatively small business themselves.
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