Orchard House, King William IV, Bourn

History of Orchard House

Listed Building

House, formerly a Public House. c.1700, C20 additions and replacements. Timber- framed and plastered, C20 pantile roof.

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14 March 1913

Magistrates discussed pubs at Bourn. The King William was a beerhouse and belonged to Messrs Phillips of Royston It was built of plaster and thatch with four rooms downstairs, one sub-let as a butcher’s shop. The tap-room was very small. The Greyhound, a fully-licensed house opposite was a much better hour while the Golden Lion had much better accommodation and stabling. The Duke of Wellington beerhouse was also better constructed. The population was 655 with 108 children on the school books. Gamlingay Three Horseshoes, Elsworth Three Horseshoes., Papworth Everard Kisby’s Hut destroyed by fire — Mike Petty, Bourn Scrapbook 1897 to 1990.