The New Inn - Milton Road, Gravesend, Kent, UK
N 51° 26.526 E 000° 22.263
31U E 317300 N 5702268
This pub stands at the corner of Milton Road and Queen Street in central Gravesend.
Waymark Code: WMH1AZ
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/06/2013
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The sign shows a coach and horses at a coaching inn. The colours are faded and something has been splattered over the sign. The marks could, as a possibility, be glue from another image being over this one. Google Earth Street View shows that the pub had a different name a few years ago.
The About Gravesend website tells us about the pub:
"This photograph (see website) of the New Inn, at the junction of Milton Road and Queen Street, was taken around 1913. It shows the fine design of the advertising signs for Rigden's Fine Ales.
Behind the inn in Queen Street are the Turner's livery stables, who offered char-à-banc drives daily.
The new Inn was the family home of Dr. Holker, who accommodated the Prince and Princess of Orange in 1734.
They had to shelter there because the weather was not fit for sailing. In 1780 the inn was sold and renamed the New Inn, perhaps because the licensee was from the New Tavern.
The New Inn, which was previously a coaching inn, had a large garden at the rear, with a bowling green."
The building is Grade II listed with the entry at English Heritage telling us:
"C18. Corner building. 2 storeys. 1st floor painted brick. Tiled roof with 2 modern gabled dormers. Coved eaves cornice. 3 sashes with verticals only in moulded architraves. C19 bar front with pilasters. 3 sashes to Queen Street elevation."