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Details of pub: Wooden House Inn, Llanbadarn Fawr (p)
Other names: Tycoed
Address/Location: Aberystwyth
OS Grid Ref: SN59698052 probably
Opened: c.
Closed: NOT KNOWN Type: Beerhouse
Summary: Police report refers to being on duty 'near the bridge' - presumably the river bridge that is on the road to Penparcau. One report refers to a policeman on duty near Pwll Simon and seeing people entering and leaving the wooden house. Another mentions someone charged with camping beside the highway near the wooden house. It may have been demolished earlier, but the only building on the map in 1889 that it could be it seems to be the small one in the top right, near the road.
Notes: Seems to have been owned by David Morgan, brewer of Llanon, and run by Thomas Edwards?
1869
Selling after hours. see att
1870
J.H. Ravenhill of Queen's Road asked for the lease of WOODEN HOUSE INN, ABERYSTWYTH for Mr Edwards (NLW Nanteos, L2428, 27th July 1870)
Application for Licence.-—Mr David Morgans applied for a certificate for- a licence- to sell beer, &c., under the New Beer House Act, 1869 in the wooden house near Llanbadarn. The application was granted (CN 1 Oct 1870)
1871 (Jan and Feb)
Thomas and Catherine Edwards in County Court over complicated 'attempt to defraud' relating to debts of Catherine's late husband. Seem to have got off.
1870
"The little inn known as the Wooden House was nearly Carried away from its foundations, and the adjacent lowlands were transformed into a vast lake." AO 5 Nov 1870
1874
Drinking after hours - again. See att.
1876
Anne Oliver keeping the house on behalf of Mr Morgan, Llanon - see att.
1880
Flooded again - see att
1892
Auction Notice for 'Wooden House Meadow' Llanbadarn fawr. Bought by D Morgan, Blaendolau Cmn Jnl and AO - report gives area of field as 6a 1r 1p, which corresponds to field 140 on the OS map 1905.
Additional information
Newspaper:
Selling outside hours, Wooden House Inn
Date: 1876
Newspaper:
Wooden House flooded
Date: 1880
Newspaper:
Selling beer at 3am
Date: 1869
Newspaper:
Selling Beer at 3am - another report
Date: 1869
Newspaper:
Drinking after hours
Date: 1874
Newspaper:
Drunken woman turned away
Date: 1877
Newspaper:
Alleged indecent assault
Date: 1870
Newspaper:
Thomas Edwards in the workhouse
Date: 1873
Newspaper:
Indecent assault - discharged
Date: 1870
Map:
OS Map 1889 with likely location
Date: 1889
Newspaper:
Camping beside the highway
Date: 1869
People associated with this establishment
Edwards, Catherine and Thomas [-]
