Pub history

The Malthouse

This pub stands on the site of a malthouse – one of the outbuildings of nearby Dale House. Being on New Road (itself constructed around 1818 as a turnpike), Dale House was built for the Hincks family more than half a century earlier, whose malthouse was situated next door. The malthouse was later converted to The Coliseum – the first cinema on the site, which opened in 1914, on the eve of World War I.