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As part of the Market
Square redevelopment, the local council gave the Home Brewery the corner
plot on the new marketplace, plus £1,950 towards the building of the new
structure in compensation for the loss of their previous property.
In February 1904, solicitors acting for the brewery applied for the old
licence to be transferred to the new premises which were “about to be
erected”. The cost of the replacement Market Hotel was said to be £4,000.
The building has a date stone of 1905 on top of the gable facing the
marketplace.
In 1907, Joseph Bailey’s son and daughter-in-law, both “well known” in
Sutton, became the proprietors of the Portland Hotel, Mansfield Woodhouse.
In 1913, Joseph Bailey died, and his son Joseph took over the licence.
In 1917 Frank Bailey, of the “Market Hotel, Licenced Victualler”, was up
before the Sutton Tribunal, having been previously granted three months
exemption from being called up as long as he took up munitions work. He was
referred back to the Central Medical board.
In the 1920's the occupants were listed as beer retailers, in an unnamed
property. By 1941, the Market Hotel name was back in use again.
In 1977 it was still owned by the Home Brewery as the Market Hotel, but the
Home Brewery was taken over by Scottish & Newcastle in 1986. By 1990, it had
changed its name to the Market Tavern.
In 1996, landlord Carl Scothern was offering entertainment in the form of
“Buskers Night”. They also held a regular Saturday night disco and live
bands. In April 1999, the Market Tavern was one of the twelve pubs that
signed up for the town’s “Pub Watch” scheme.
In 2000, it was trading as the Market Tavern, but was now a Banks’s House.
This continued until at least 2009. By 2015 it was no longer branded with
the Banks’s signage and was open but to let, but in 2017 the windows were
boarded up and the building was for sale.
It was sold in 2018, in a poor state of repair, with “holes in the ceiling
and walls”. The purchaser was a local firm of Solicitors who opened their
new office inside the Old Market Tavern in February 2019. |
