NHER 47062 (Building record) - Hob In The Well Public House

Public House. Early 19th century. Brick with slate roof. 2 storeys and attic in 3 bays. Central door with plain hood on curved consoles flanked to right and left by one tripartite sash with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Above are 2 identical sashes, and, between them, one horned sash window over door. Gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks. Single-storeyed late 19th century extension to west incorporates remains of the town wall running south down Littleport Terrace.
Information from (S1).
S. Spooner (NLA) 11 September 2006

Building incorporates part of town defences see NHER 5486.
E. Rose (NLA), 2007.

This building is thought to have been in existence by 1796. The name comes from an 18th-century play in which a messenger boy, acting for a pair of lovers, is thrown into a well by a wicked uncle.
See (S2) for further information.
However (S3) contradicts this and dates the building of this public house by the demolition of the East Gate (NHER 64054), which was ordered in July 1800. At that time the southern part of the East Gate was being used as a public house called the Hob in the Well. In September 1800 the Corporation leased to Edward Everard part of the site of the demolished East Gate on condition that he 'built a New House in the room of the old one lately taken down'.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 15 November 2018.