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The Rose Hotel – 30 Market Place
Up to 1901
The original Rose Inn stood on the north side of Market Place. It ceased being used as an inn in
1844, at which time the current owner moved to the other side of Market Place, to its present
position. This was because John Wise wanted to provide 'better accommodation and comfort for
the nobility, gentry and public'. The Rose Hotel (as it has been since 1920) was once two buildings,
but was then extended to provide extensive stabling, a lock-up coach house and a large garden at
the rear. It has been one of the centres of Wokingham life ever since.
[The New Rose was an inn in Peach Street, which lasted only a dozen years, around 1770-1780)].
