Four Mile House / Fagins, Stroud Road, Brookthorpe GL4 0US

The Four Mile house (now Fagins) is four miles from Gloucester Cathedral and about four miles to Stroud. It is actually located in the parish of Harescombe. The Four Mile House was once a coaching inn and dates back to at least 1856.

The Citizen: Tuesday 8^th September 1987 – Pub’s £200 gifts: Three charities have reaped the benefit of a year-long cash raising effort by regulars at the Four Mile House pub in Painswick (sic). Licensee Mr. Bill Bayliss decided the McMillan Nurses, Ermin House and the Dolphin Children Fund should be the charities to benefit from the pub’s annual round of raffles. Each was given a cheque last night. Mr Bayliss is already planning his next fund-raising drive. There will be a barbecue and full cabaret in the pub on September 16, which it is hoped will raise over £1,000 for the Stroud-based Meningitis Trust.

When Easton and Alison Hogben of Quality Inns of Gloucester took over the lease from Whitbread Pub Partnerships in 2000, £300,000 was spent on refurbishing the pub. The pub has an outdoor play area for children and in 2005 had a play barn with chickens roaming free.

Map Reference: SO 837122

Licensing Details:

Type of licence in 1891: Alehouse

Owner in 1891: W.C. Lucy, Esq. (free from brewery tie)

Rateable Value in 1903: £36.0s.0d.

Type of licence in 1903: Alehouse

Owner in 1903: Major General C.B. Thackwell (free from brewery tie)

Owner in 2000,2022: Quality Inns of Gloucester

Landlords:

1856 Mrs E. Coates

1885,1903 John Taylor

1919 Samuel Pearce

1927 William Henry Luker

1939 Rt. Alfred Lee

c.1939-c.1945 Harold & Mabel Wright

1981,1985 Bill Bayliss

1997 Frank O’Shaughnessy

2000 Wendy and Kent Hamblett (managers)

2005 Janice Allen (manager)

 

Gloucestershire Chronicle, 15th August 1846

 

The Bird in Hand, Brockthorpe (sic)

 

Daniel Vines, 26, and Elijah Clayfield, 21, were indicted for having on the 4th day of August, feloniously assaulted Richard Smith with intent to commit a robbery. It appeared that the prosecutor in company with his cousin were riding home about 11 o’clock on the night of the 4th of August, and when near the Bird-in-Hand, Brockthorpe, the prisoners attacked them, and attempted to throw a smock frock over their horses’ heads; failing in this they threatened to pull them off their horses, and threw brickbats at their heads; they both missed the men, but one hit one of the horses on the head and stunned it. The prisoners denied that they were there. The jury found them guilty of an assault but acquitted them of the intent to rob. His Lordship said they had a merciful jury who did not think they intended to rob, although what other intent they could have unless it was to murder, he could not say. They were sentenced to 3 months’ Imprisonment.