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Page Updated:- Sunday, 15 August, 2021.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1841-

Black Horse

Open 2020+

Tumblefield Road

Stansted

01732 822355

http://www.theblackhorsestansted.co.uk/

https://whatpub.com/black-horse

Black Horse

Above postcard, date unknown.

Black Horse 2010

Above photo 2008 by Stephen Craven Creative Commons Licence.

Black Horse sign 2014

Above sign 2014, taken by Adam Swain from Flickr.

 

Project 2014 has been started to try and identify all the pubs that are and have ever been open in Kent. I have just added this pub to that list but your help is definitely needed regarding it's history.

As the information is found or sent to me, including photographs, it will be shown here.

Thanks for your co-operation.

 

From the West Kent Guardian, 21 April 1849.

On Friday evening, the 13th inst., the wife of Mr. James Fremlin, landlord of the "Black Horse" public house, Stansted, near Wrotham, in this County, gave birth to three fine children's; two girls and a boy. The mother and children are doing well.

 

Kentish Gazette, 24 April 1849.

On Saturday morning the wife of Mr. James Fremlin, of the "Black Horse," Stanstead, near Wrotham, was confined with three fine full-grown children, two girls and one boy, who, together with their mother, are doing well.

 

From the https://www.newsshopper.co.uk By PubSpy, 10th October 2012.

PUBSPY'S VIEW.

THIS week I found myself well and truly off the beaten track.

Black Horse 2012

Venturing into the darkest recesses of the Kent countryside, I stumbled, quite by accident, across The Black Horse at Stansted.

There can’t be many pubs more tucked away than this one.

Being Saturday evening - and me starving as usual - my first concern was whether food was being served.

When I was told it was, I realised my pangs of hunger had taken my full attention and I’d barely noticed the newly plastered walls and ceiling, not to mention dangling electrical fittings.

Realising I wasn’t a local, and perhaps sensing my next question, the landlady was quick to tell me they were still open but undergoing a refurbishment and did we mind a ‘slightly disorganised look’?

I spotted Larkins Traditional at £2.80 a pint and rapidly decided I could live with the undecorated appearance.

And I’ll say up front right now, how glad I was I took this decision.

Serving food between 6pm and 9pm on a Saturday evening, my dining pals and I chose three different items from the select but more than adequate menu.

The pan-fried pork chops I went for were excellent (£10.95) with roasted potatoes and roasted vegetables.

Likewise, the cod and chips at £9.95 were declared a great success.

However, both were overshadowed by quite simply the best burger ever served in any pub or restaurant.

Yes, at £9.50 the price isn’t the cheapest, but the Black Horse Burger is, and this was agreed by all three of us, the best you will ever taste.

So, let’s sum up so far - the Larkins at 3.4 per cent isn’t the strongest beer you’ll find, but it’s a damn fine pint.

The food is quite fantastic, but the pub is currently undergoing a facelift.

The welcome is as warm and friendly as you’ll find and our hostess informed me she and her husband had only had the pub for 12 weeks – what’s more it is their first venture into the trade – hence the place is being upgraded.

By this stage we were sharing pleasantries with a number of people at the bar and on the recommendation of one, I followed my pork chop with the Eton mess – another good decision.

Everyone was friendly, I particularly enjoyed being nuzzled by the cold nose of Willow – who I hasten to add was the most affectionate Weimaraner you could ever wish to meet.

We’d only been in the pub an hour but Phil, with shoulder-length white hair, already felt he knew us well enough to wish us an effusive good night as he left.

To conclude, I just want to say I desperately hope the ongoing refurbishment will not add any TV screens, fruit machines, juke boxes or other superfluous electricals.

This is, and must remain, a well-kept rural secret where the locals welcome all-comers, in particular the friendly four-legged variety.

I was so taken with the Black Horse I promised myself I would return very soon to try the Sunday lunch, read the papers and, perhaps, just perhaps, take a proper country walk.

Decor * (a work in progress)

Drink **** (go for Larkins)

Price *** (good value)

Food ***** (best burger ever)

Atmosphere **** (totally relaxed)

Staff ***** (you won’t meet nicer people)

 

From the https://www.kentonline.co.uk By Rebecca Tuffin, 24 August 2019.

13 Kent pub gardens to visit this summer bank holiday weekend.

With this bank holiday weekend set to one of hottest yet, many will be longing for an ice-cold pint in a sunny beer garden.

So we have found some of the best Kent has to offer.

Listed below are 13 of the county's finest spots to meet with friends and indulge in good food and drink.

The Black Horse.

Black Horse garden 2019

The Black Horse garden.

The Black Horse's pub garden, complete with brightly-coloured flowers and purple parasols, this is a perfect bank holiday destination.

Recently renovated, the venue offers a range of pub classics and four-legged friends are welcome.

Locally-brewed Larkin’s is on tap, alongside regular guest ales at the hostelry.

 

LICENSEE LIST

LOCK William 1841 (identified with no occupation age 60 in 1841Census)

FREMLIN James 1849-51+ (also farmer age 42 in 1851Census)

SKUDDER Thomas 1858+ (also shopkeeper)

SKUDDER Mary W Miss 1871-81+ (also grocer age 38 in 1881Census)

HILLS Joseph 1903+ Kelly's 1903

NORTON James 1913+

SANDERS Frank John 1922+

WOODROW Arthur 1938+

GLADWISH Arthur H 1939+ (age 50 in 1939)

https://pubwiki.co.uk/BlackHorse.shtml

 

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

CensusCensus

 

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