44 (3) Dover Road / Walmer Castle Road

Lower Walmer

Deal

Above picture shows Wellesley House, shown January 2000.

This isn't the same building, but has the connection of being called Wellesley House. The local paper dated 12 January 1929 stated:- Wellesley House, Castle Road, Walmer (which is just off the Dover Road); is now open as an up-to-date nursing home.

I have also found reference to the Duke of Wellington, Lord Warden to the Cinque Ports, Sir Arthur Wellesley, who prior to 1808 had lived at the top of Walmer Castle Road in the house which today bears his name - Wellesley House.

The pub was obviously named after Arthur Wellesley who was the Duke of Wellington and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.

In 1857 the licensee Richard Rogers was fined £2 for keeping his house open during improper hours.

In 1863 a mariner, William Moss assaulted a soldier, John Ward at the pub and was fined 10s. and 17s costs or 14 days hard labour. he paid the fine.

When John Ferris took over the pub in 1867 and he was noted as being one of the "Nobel 600" who had taken part in the Charge of the Light brigade on 25 October 1854.

In 1911 a Magistrates' report stated the pub was mainly used by Royal Marines, the landlord had a wife and six children and the pub had been recommended for closure five times since 1901. It was at the time the only pub owned by the George Beer Brewery and they had spent £385 on it. The report recommended the tap room should be "matchboarded" but it finally closed on 30 December 1911.

It later became W. H. Wyborn's Garage and Cycle shop.

The book titled "The Old Pubs of deal and Walmer" states that in the 1861 census there were three pubs together, those being "Bricklayers Arms," the "Cambridge Arms" and the "Wellesley Arms."

Just had confirmation that "Wellesley House is left of centre with the gabled roof and red cars in front.

"The house stands at the top of Walmer Castle Road, near to the Dover Road, some distance from Walmer Castle, which is at the bottom of the hill by the sea."