Queens Buildings were a row of houses in Wellington Passage, which ran between the High Street and Albion Street. The royal connection was because it was named after Queen Charlotte who was a patroness of a Female Orphan Society was was there in 1806.
The Gloucestershire Chronicle of 1870 mentions a Wellington Hotel ‘with outbuildings behind at 95 High Street.’
In the 1891 and 1903 licensing books the Wellington Inn is documented as being ‘Tied to Henry Dredge’. In 1891 it is known that Henry Dredge was in occupation at the Beehive in Montpellier and there was a brewery attached to the premises. Presumably the Wellington Inn was, in effect, tied to the Beehive Brewery. The Wellington Inn was a licensed beer house and had an annual rateable value of £21.5.0d., staying at the same level during those twelve years.
CAUTION: The information on this page is believed to be correct, but there was a pub in Bath Road called the Wellington Ale & Porter Stores. It may be possible that some details relating to the Wellington Inn Queens Buildings should be that of the Wellington Ale & Porter Stores, Bath Road.
Landlords:
1830 William Dangerfield (Wellington Arms, Queens Buildings)
1844 Joseph Rone (Wellington Arms, Queens Buidings)
1856,1870 George Holder (In the Royal Cheltenham Directory 1870-71, listed as the Wellington Inn, Queen’s Buildings.)
1891 Mary Hogg
1902 Frederick Vowles
1903 William John Cofield
