![]() The date by which we will do a key inspection: Name of inspector: Deborah Sharman Date of this annual service review: 0 3 1 1 2 0 0 9 Annual Service Review of 6 Information about the serviceĪddress of service: Severn Drive Dothill Telford TF2381530 01952381531 Telephone number: Fax number: Email address: Provider web address: No You should read the last key inspection report for this service to get a full picture of how well outcomes for the people using the service are being met. Has this annual service review changed our opinion of the service? It does not involve a visit to the service but is a summary of new information given to us, or collected by us, since the last key inspection or annual service review. We call this review a ‘key’ inspection We do an annual service review when there has been no key inspection of the service in the last 12 months. We give a quality rating following a full review of the service. Were you a customer, publican or member of staff at this pub? Display your email contact details on this page by adding them here and let past regulars get in touch with you.Name of Service: Downing House The quality rating for this care home is: The rating was made on: two star good service 2 5 1 1 2 0 0 8 A quality rating is our assessment of how well a care home, agency or scheme is meeting the needs of the people who use it. Restaurant after dropping the pub licence and then tried to re-open it byĪpplying for a new licence which was refused due to the location (2 milesįrom Croydon village and the Queen Adelaide and more than a mile to Tadlow.ĭo you have any anecdotes, historical information, updates or photos of this pub? Become a contributor by submitting them here. I amĪlso told that the last landlord tried to turn it into a hotel and a Isolate position trade declined with the advent of drink driving laws. I am told that the pub had well known "lock ins" in the 70's but given its To hunt from the Downing Arms with his friend W G Grace, the cricketer. The hunt photograph is veryĪpposite since one of the former bursars of the college Dr John Perkins used Photographs I would like to hear from them. I have only one photograph of the pub in action with what appears to be theĬambridgeshire Hunt meeting outside for a stirrup cup. To me although in one of the Downing College newsletters on the web fromġ996 a George Callan informs the college of its closure and it is noted that Ray Warden who took it over in 1988 and closed the pub in 95/96 are unknown ![]() House and farm from before 1820 through to 1916, but other landlords up to This may in part be the origin of the name since the tenants on the DowningĬollege Estate paid their rent at the pub each Michelmas and saw the coat ofĪrms of the Downing family, which includes a griffin rampant, as a Subsequently became the rent house of Downing College. The Road and the college applied for a licence for it as a pub and it The Downing Arms was conveniently situated on Now the B1042 and the toll cottage can be seen on the road at the junction The Old North Road (Ermine Street) and the Great North Road. The college built a toll road on its land to join There was a suggestion that the rents had not been collected for In Norfolk and the West Cambridgeshire estates, both of which were in poorĬondition and were not generating sufficient funds to build and run the newĬollege. The University inherited two estates, one However hisĭescendants had disputed the will for many years and the money for theĬollege and the estates which were to fund it di not come into the hands of Land around the time of the restoration of the Monarchy. Third Sir George Downing, the first having been granted the title to the The college had come into being as a result of the will of the The pub was originally established as part of a funding drive by DowningĬollege. The farm (66 Acres)Ĭontinued with the pub until 1947 when Downing College who owned a largeĮstate of land from Tadlow ,Croydon, East Hatley and Gamlingay ,sold theĮstate and the pub became a tied house (Whitbread). Site and the barn at the back of the pub had a dairy. It was first licensed as a pub in 1827 There was previously a farm on the I am also looking for information on the pub. Presentīy 1861 when the publican was William Simons, it closed in August 1995.įormerly the Downing Arms or as it was known locally "the Scratching Cat"Īnd purchased the house from the last landlord who had closed it as a pub in Scratching Cat' was situated on Lower Road.
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