In 1891 the Central Inn was a free house owned by Mrs Farr. It was licensed as a beer house and had an annual rateable value of £17.0s.0d. Sometime during the next twelve years the Central Inn was sold to Flowers & Sons, brewers of Stratford on Avon.
The Central Inn was numbered 17 Bennington Street in the 1939 Kellys directory. The sequence of numbering in Bennington Street today places 17 Bennington Street next to Smokey Joes café.
Landlords at the Central Inn include:
1870 William Green
1878 Frank Palmer
1883 C. England
1885 George Parker
1891 Donald Ferguson
1903 Charles William Miles
1926 Charles Radway
1939 Mrs Florence Radway
