Site of 1920s public house, 'Hope Inn', 16 High Street (EHER 48090)

Now destroyed. A public house built in 1923, to replace an establishment of the same name, and in use until 2009. It was demolished in advance of the construction of dwellings shortly after recording in 2011.

April 2011. Building recording. The Hope Inn was constructed in 1923, purpose built from mass produced and widely available materials to replace an earlier drinking establishment, also called the Hope Inn. The inn may be named after Rear Admiral Sir George Johnstone Hope, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, (1767-1818) who captained HMS Defence at the Battle of Trafalgar (Lovell, 1991). Although Sir George had no direct connection to Tollesbury, the village has a strong maritime tradition. The inn was closed in 2009 and lay derelict until recording in advance of demolition. Externally little changed in the nine decades of the Hope Inn’s existence. The only major changes to the exterior came with the addition of a single storey extension at the north-west corner of the north wall in the 1950s and the removal of the veranda on the west side and its replacement with a plank-clad extension in the 1970s. <1>