A beer house in a mid-Victorian area off Wharf Street.
John Kennedy was landlord from 1852.
Joseph Brown was in-charge when he was in court in September 1862, for being open in unlawful hours. It was noted that this was his 5th conviction for this offence.
Benjamin Walker followed shortly after until 1868, when the beerhouse was put up for let, complete with adjoining bakery.
Henry Busby took over the reigns before passing it to James Herbert, but in December 1871, James Herbert gave up the licence to John Mitchell. Licensee John Mitchell was refused renewal of his licence at the Brewster sessions on the 28th of August 1873.
To complicate matters, in the census of 1861 gives 15 Denman Street ran by William Weston and family – the name of the public house was recorded as The Rose of England.
A case in 1858 tells of a disturbance Wharf St when a crowd of drinkers left the ROSE of ENGLAND, scuffle broke out between a disturbed resident and a couple of revelers resulting in one of the men being stabbed in the head, much conflicting evidence at court resulted in the bench dismissing the claim by either party of who started the fight.
September 1861 Mr Walker of the Rose of England Denman St hired a booth at Leicester races.
So we have overlapping pub names at the same address maybe it never officially changed its name, or as is sometime the case the pub is recorded in its original name long after it has changed names, we have a landlord named Benjamin Walker running the Crown & Compass, the same year a Mr Walker at the Rose of England is listed, until further research we wont know if they are one and the same pub.