The Rose Public House: Cotton End Road, Wilshamstead
The Rose began life as a beerhouse. The countywide licensing register of 1876 states that this was over forty years previously.
The establishment is not listed in the run of countywide licensing registers from 1818 to 1822 indicating that it probably opened for the first time between 1828 and 1836.
Charles Wells applied for planning permission to rebuild the house in 1927.
Permission was sought to add a garage the following year. In 1934 they applied for permission for an outbuilding to house a portable forge [RDBP2/580] and to make alterations in 1936.
The final record for the public house (as it became when it was fully licensed on 7th March 1936) is an application for planning permission for an extension and a car park in 1987.
At some point after 1996 the Rose closed its doors for the last time and is now a private house.