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| COACH & HORSES - ARUNDEL ROAD (A27) | |
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Built as the Rose and Crown in 1741, it became the Coach and Horses in 1763. A coach house was added in 1785 as it became a staging post along the main Arundel coaching route. This later became the A27. |
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Barbara Barnes was the
landlady from 1984 to 1992 and the wife of Terry Spinx, who was a
boxing Flyweight Gold-Medallist in the 1956 Olympics. Barbara
recalls the property was built with wattle and daub, a mixture of
mud, dung and straw, forming a crude plaster covering. There were
two tiny rooms in the loft accessed by a tiny narrow staircase. Out the back there was a barn for the horses and a bunk room for the coachmen above part of the building accessed from the rear yard. The barn was damaged in the storm of 1987 but was quickly attended to, being a listed property. Sadly to original front door with its bottle glass windows was replaced as ir became impossible to repair. |
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| Known landlord/manager | |
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(?) - Thomas
Green |
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