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Date of photo: 1945
The Dumb Flea was situated on Chiswick End. This pub was present by 1858 when the publican was Benjamin Payne. This pub closed in 1956 following the brewery's refusal to install proper drainage for the one tap over the kitchen sink, as per the council's request. Waste from the sink used to flow into the ditch at the side of the pub. Over the years this pub has had several names including The Dumb Fleece, The Dun Fleece, The Lord Of Dumfries and The Deaf & Dumb. This grade-II listed pub is now in residential use.
Listed building details:
Cottage, formerly public house. C18, extended C19 and C20. Timber framed, rendered and long straw thatch roof, half-hipped to left hand end. Ridge stack of red brick and two flues. Single range two bay and lobby entry plan. One storey and attic. Two original dormers to front and one late C20 dormer at rear. Two small casements on either side of doorway to lobby entry. Early C19 addition of clay bat on brick plinth. Thatched. Used as a cellar when the cottage was a beer house. Inside: Abutting inglenook hearths of soft red brick. One originally with a bread oven, and both with salt ledges. Framing exposed of varied scantling with straight bracing. The floor to the end bay is modern. In the garden is a C19 timber framed and a long straw thatch barn. Two bays.
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Date of photo: 2011	Picture source: Google Streetview