Kensington, Carlton

Large post-war pub, formerly a Shipstone's house.

"Opened 8 June 1962 by Sir Richard Elwes, a former High Court judge. The pub was named after his family to commemorate its connection with Nottinghamshire.
This is a single-storey pub set under a large open timber roof, with a long narrow plan. At the street end, with its own formal entrance, is the clubroom, which survives. The remainder of the pub is entered from the car park on the south side, raised up steps on a terrace. This was opened out two years ago and is now a single space, much of it in restaurant use and with two bay windows at the far eastern end that may be additions. PS/B/64/8: premises to be erected at Oakdale Road and Greendale Road, for which an application (provisional publican’s licence) appeared in the Guardian Journal on 23 January 1959. A single-storey building for Shipstone’s was approved on 10 March 1959, designed by Cecil Howitt and Partners, for which there are elevations but no detailed plans." [Elain Harwood / Historic England].

As at November 2017, the freehold for the Elwes Arms (NT349496) was held by Ei Group plc [Reg. No. 2562808], formerly Enterprise Inns.

Sir Richard's father was Gervase Henry Cary-Elwes (1866 - 1921), a famous tenor singer of his day, killed in a tragic railway accident in Boston in the USA. Sir Richard (1901-1968) was married to Mary Freya Sykes (1904 - 1994) by his uncle, Dudley Cary-Elwes, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Northampton. One of Sir Richard's children was the BBC presenter Polly Elwes (1928 - 1987), who was married to Grandstand presenter Peter Dimmock, another the actor Mark Elwes (b. 1931). Sir Richard's brother, Lt. Col. Simon Edmund Vincent Paul Elwes (1902 - 1975) was an offical war artist and society portrait painter, whose grandson is the "Robin Hood - Men in Tights" actor Cary Elwes (b. 1962). Sir Richard's neice, daughter of Clare Mary Alice Cynthia Catherine Celia Elwes (1905 - 1998), was the gardening writer Maggie Keswick (1941 - 1995), who founded the charity Maggies Centres for cancer therapy: https://www.maggiescentres.org

[Gedling Borough Council; Carlton Ward / Nottinghamshire County Council; Carlton West Division / Gedling Parliamentary Constituency]