Offton Limeburners
opening hours
- Mon-Thu: 1200-2200
- Fri-Sat: 1200-2330
- Sun: 1200-2200
food times
- Mon-Tue: closed
- Wed-Thu: 1630-2100
- Fri-Sat: 1200-1400, 1630-2100
- Sun: 1200-1430
guest beers
This pub serves 4 guest ales.
Local licensing authority for Offton is Mid Suffolk
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Jun 29th, 2024.
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Offton Limeburners
formerly Limeburners Arms
North East, 52.10305,1.02595
Cask Ale is sold here.
Willisham Road, IP8 4SF
grid reference TM 073 492
opened about 1850
A friendly split level bar. There's a large garden and car-park. Regular live music most weekends and other events such as a monthly quiz. Toilet for disabled customers. Regular visits by mobile food vendors
The pub is named after a large chalk pit (on opposite side of road) which used to contain lime kilns (some local photos are on display in pub)
The pub is actually located in Willisham parish, though it's geographically nearer to Offton. The convoluted boundary between the two parishes here (see the map) adds to the confusion.
Note that the FSA hygiene rating is for the on-site chippie, not the pub itself, for which we can find no details.
Facilities
Accessible to disabled customers
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Beer served through handpumps
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Dogs welcome
Evening meals
Family friendly
Live music
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Pub sells beer from local brewers
Restaurant or separate dining area
Separate bar
Traditional pub games available
WiFi available
Railway station about 4.6 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Needham Market: 4.6 miles (7.4km)
Duke of Marlborough 0.74 mile
Rose & Crown 1.96 miles
Red Lion 2.1 miles
Fox 2.1 miles
Wheelhouse 3.0 miles
Bramford Cock 3.6 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from 1882 (interactive map).
Owner/operator: free
Friendly two bar local, named after the lime kiln in the quarry opposite. Large garden. Buskers nights alternate Sun. Regaining its past reputation for quality beer with previous tenants now firmly at the helm. A GBG entry. No food Mon.
Beers: Adnams Bitter; Wells Eagle; guest beer (independents)CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
In 1840 to 1855 John Hood is listed as a lime burner and beer house keeper in Willisham. This may have been the origins of the pub?
John Hood, beer seller, of Willesham, was fined 10s 6d for keeping his house open for the sale of beer after the hour 10pm. Ipswich Journal, Oct 1840**
The building reputedly cost about £800 to build in 1850.…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(1891 census information from Dudley Diaper)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
