The Frog and Orange
 (formerly The Green Man)
This Inn known by the name and sign of The Green Man was built in the second
year of George II, in 1728.

When first built it was a farm dwelling. It comprised of a main tenement with stable, outhouses, barn hop grounds and nine acres of land with one acre of wooded land. Originally the building was part of the possessions of Christopher Ernest Kien of Kensington Palace, a lieutenant colonel of the Horse Guards, who owned several estates including the manor of Polton and the hamlet of Shatterling within the parish of Staple. Not long after the house was built he leased part of the estate including the house, to the honourable General Richard Ingoldsbey of Grosvenor Street, London. He subsequently re-leased this property to Abraham Larkins, a farmer of Staple.

Christopher Ernest Kien died in 1744, and passed his estate by the terms of his will, to his widow Jane. The building then changed ownership many times until 1788, when George Kien Hayward Cousemaker, who is described as a Captain in his Majesty’s Foot Regiment of First Guards took ownership. Cousemaker married the Honourable Catherine Southwell, daughter of the late Edward Lord de Clifford to whom the estate passed in 1794 upon the death of her husband. In 1797, she  then passed it, by will, to her son George. He possessed it until his death in 1820, whereupon it passed to his daughter Sophia. At this date, and for some years prior, there had been an ale house adjacent to this property called The Green Man, which had once been part of the same estate, but at some time had reverted to Gervas Hayward, Mayor of Sandwich. There had occurred an infringement of the license of that house and for some time the heirs of Gervas Hayward had petitioned to close it. Eventually, this was achieved and a clause was written stating that the property should never be used as an ale house, and it never was again.

In 1820, this house was occupied by Filmer Larkins, a farmer and son of Jacob. He, with the consent of the estate and two justices at Sandwich, was granted a license to sell ales from these premises, which at the hearing he registered under the sign of The Green Man.
The ales that he sold or issued shall not be adulterated or impured upon, or issued from pots of illegal measure and shall not be issued or consumed between the hours of divine service. The course of gaming shall not be permitted within the premises, nor shall there be drunkeness and thieves shall not be harboured within the premises. And so having gave two sureties of his good character to uphold the terms of the license, Filmer Larkins opened the doors of this house and sold ale from it for the first time. In 1826 he was granted a full license and the Green Man became a registered tavern.

The Green Man at this date was in the possession of Sophia Russell, daughter of George Cousemaker and her husband John who was a Captain in the Royal Navy. They held the estate along with the most Noble Henry Charles Duke of Beaufort Knight of the most noble order of the garter, and Francis Russell, the Marquis of Tavistock. Though from this point others heirs and co-heirs became entitled to parts of the estate and there followed lengthy arguments at law, which culminated in 1830, when Sophia Russell, then the Baroness de Clifford, petitioned Parliament, an act was subsequently passed amending the laws respecting conveyances and surrenders of estates and funds vested in trustees and mortgages. Among those heirs were the family of Dyneley who had been granted the estate by Henry VIII, in 1539.

In 1841, Sophia, Baroness de Clifford, the noble Francis, Duke of Bedford and Robert Hale Blagden Hale sold The Green Man with its land and all appurtenances to John Dadds esq of Wingham. However, he in the same year, accepted the promisary note of George Collard, Victualler of Staple, for the sum of 450 pounds for the Freehold of the Green Man, that it became payable over a period of time with interest, certain amounts of which remain unpaid to this day. George Collard kept the house until his death in 1863, whereupon his widow Clara sold it to the Gardner Godden Brewery of Ash-next-Sandwich. The first tenanted keeper of the Green Man was Thomas Wyborn, a market gardener, who during his time here carried on that business as well as the day to day running of the house, as did others that followed him. In 1951, the Gardner Brewery of Ash-next-Sandwich merged with Thompson and Wooten of Ramsgate to form Combined Brewery Holdings, which in 1955 was taken over by the Whitbread Brewery. In 1972 they sold it as a Free House.

Today, the pub trades under the banner of The Frog & Orange and run by husband and wife team, Trevor and Laura, along with their daughter, Louise.

The Keepers