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Originally Posted by Jill
Glad you were able to visit, Lewes is one of my favourite towns.
Was the Dolphin the building on the right as you look down St Nicholas Lane from the High St? It was a Maynards when I first worked in Lewes late 1970s but is now an undertakers, it appears have Tudor origins.
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I think we worked out it would have been on that side of the road - it's a few years now since we were there. We had a copy of the deeds with us and it says that The Dolphin and 41 High Street stood on a block of land that was owned by Robert Stapley a butcher, along with 40 High Street when John Rowe compiled his survey of the manor of Lewes Burges in 1624.When my great grandfather was the landlord it was owned by Verrall's Brewery.William Verrall bought it in 1776.
If you're interested in the deeds they are on the A2A section of TNA web site. I put "George Beaumont" into their search engine and that is what came up.