The New Inn was on the site of the present 282 London Road. All that remains today is the frame of its old inn sign (above) which is still utilized by the current occupants.

The New Inn was built in about 1859 to the east of the Workhouse on the London Road. This south-east part of the London Road is listed in directories under Headington Quarry village.

This map extract (right) shows the inn (the large square building) in 1921, with the New Inn Cottages adjoining it (two to the west and seven to the east). .

The inn always remained “New” until it closed in the early 1930s. It was always listed as being at 162 London Road, because the major renumbering of that road (which meant the site became No. 282) did not take place until after it had closed.

On 19 May 1866 the forthcoming auction of the New Inn together with the nine adjoining cottages was advertised thus in Jackson's Oxford Journal:

TO BREWERS AND OTHERS.
VALLUABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY,
A road-side FREE PUBLIC HOUSE, known as the “NEW INN”, together with
9 COTTAGES and large Gardens, all adjoining,
And fronting the Turnpike Road at HEADINGTON, about midway between Oxford and WHEATLEY, and several other populous villages….

Lot 1.—All that FREEHOLD PUBLIC HOUSE, known as the New Inn, comprising tap room, parlour, and kitchen, on the ground floor, four large bed rooms over the same, capital cellar in the basement, stabling for five horses and chaff room, with capital large hay loft, together with wash-house, piggeries, yard, and large garden attached; also Two COTTAGES on the west side thereof, each having a wash-house, piggery, and large garden, pump and well of excellent water, and other conveniences, the whole occupying a site of between 20 and 30 poles of ground, and fronting the turnpike road midway between Oxford and Wheatley.

Lot 2.—Seven capital COTTAGES, on the south-east side of and adjoining Lot 1, each having a wash-house, piggery, and about nine poles of garden ground, well of excellent water, and other conveniences, occupied by Messrs Elkerton, Bannister, and others, and producing an aggregate rental of £34 9s. per annum.

N.B. The whole of the foregoing Property is Freehold, Tithe-free, and Land Tax redeemed, and has been most substantially built within the last seven years of the best Headington free-stone range work, with blue slate, sash windows, and all other materials of the best quality. The public-house stands remarkably well for business, and is at the present time doing a very good trade; this Property may be fairly considered as first class of its kind.

On 7 September 1867 it was reported that the magistrates were unable to see the necessity for spirits to be served at this beer house, and its application was refused.

The New Inn had the following landlords:

• 1861: Thomas Snow
• 1869–1877: Henry Quarterman
• 1881: Philip Durham
• 1885–1921: Daniel Stevens
• 1921–1931: John Henry Stevens, son of the above (born in Headington Quarry in 1878)..

On 3 January 1885 Daniel Stevens was summoned before the Bullingdon Petty Sessions for permitting drunkenness at the New Inn, but as his wife Jane had made a feeble attempt to get ridd of the two drunk men, he was not convicted. .

The 1891 census shows Daniel Stevens, described as a brick burner, living at the New Inn with his wife Jane and his children John, George, Frank, and Amy. In 1899 Jane Stevens committed suicide here by drinking carbolic acid (see Jackson’s Oxford Journal of 6 May 1899). On 5 January 1901 Daniel Stevens married his second wife, the widow Mary Ann Billinghurst, the daughter of the late Richard Lamburn who had been miller at the windmill in Windmill Road. In the 1901 census Daniel, described as an innkeeper, was living here with Mary Ann and his son Frank (17), who was a bricklayer: they were also listed here in the 1911 census.

The 1921 census shows John Stevens (43), the son of the previous landlord who was described as an out-of-work bricklayer, living at the New Inn with his wife Rose and their seven children.

The pub closed in about 1932 and was rebuilt as a shop. In 1933 when it was still numbered 162 London Road the shopkeeper was Mrs Whetton. Thereafter it the shop is listed as 282 London Road: in 1935 the shopkeeper was Francis C. Whetton, and from 1936 it was Mrs F. Findlay.