Once part of the glorious Tyntesfield estate The Battleaxes was built by the benevolent Matilda Blanche Gibbs, widow of wealthy merchant William Gibbs, in 1881.
She wanted the building as somewhere for estate workers to meet without drinking alcohol.
But at the outbreak of World War 1 the Temperance House was leased to Georges Brewery, later Courage Brewery, and then we presume the beer and cider flowed.
In World War 2 land girls and the walking wounded from the American hospital used to socialise at the pub.
Its name refers to the Tyntesfield coat-of-arms which is three battle axes.
When Courage’s gave back the lease to the late Lord Wraxall (Richard Gibbs) in the 1960s he promptly sold the building.
It isn’t on public record of how much Matilda’s great grandson got from Courage tenant Mr A Bird for the freehold in 1962 but the average UK house price at the time was £2,950 and a new Ford Cortina cost £591.