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The Rose & Crown was situated at 2 Wisbech Road. This pub closed in 2023.

Reopened in 2025.

Admin (August 2026)

From Peterborough Heritage:

The Rose and Crown Public House is believed to have been built in the early 1890’s. Acquired by the People's Refreshment House Association in 1899, one of their earliest properties. (The People's Refreshment House Association set up by Rev Osbert Mordaunt 1877 to manage public houses on a system to promote sobriety). Forms part of a larger group of buildings with the former ‘Tap Room’ (north east) built as part of the 7th Duke of Bedford’s ‘model agricultural settlement’ 1845-1865 (See T8). The building has significant architectural quality and retains substantially all external features. The position and scale of the building makes this a prominent local landmark at the heart of the village. Description: A substantial detached property set back from the street frontage. Two storeys of red brick with painted stone dressings. Broadly rectangular plan. Symmetrically arranged 4 bay frontage Balanced pair of large forward projecting hipped gables with heavily oversailing timber eaves and bargeboards. Echo of “Elizabethan” style with gables incorporating a timber frame structure with mock timber framing of braced studs with painted infill. Double height stone framed cant bays with mullions and transoms. Vertical division of the main and side windows, all painted. The hipped Welsh slate roof is a large span, incorporating substantial pitched sub roofs. Entrance door is enclosed by infill porch between forward gables. Chimneys on the main ridge with tall side chimneys to each side breaking through, all substantially unaltered with projecting courses and pots.

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