Beccles Crown & Anchor
listed building grade II
last updated Jan 5th, 2026.
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Beccles Crown & Anchor
North West, 52.457,1.56176
Closed: about 1984
7 Ballygate
grid reference TM 420 903
It's shown (though not named) on this OS town plan of 1884.
The Crown & Anchor was built during the 16th century. A planning application to change this pub into offices was rejected in August 1984, so it probably closed not long before that. (Permission for conversion to residential use was granted later that month).
It may earlier have been the Black Swan.
Message from Alice Massey: looking at family history for Victor Muarice Mann, the Crown and Anchor is his address on the probate documents when he died in 1984.
Gallery
Swan House 0.07 mile
King's Head Hotel 0.07 mile
Old Tap 0.09 mile
Bear & Bells 0.20 mile
Fox & Hounds 0.27 mileHistorical interest
Married on the 23rd December 1879 at St. Michael's Church, Beccles, James Potter, of the Crown and Anchor Inn, Beccles to Eliza Jane Beaves, Studland, Dorsetshire.Ipswich Journal, January 1880**
At the Beccles Petty Sessions held in June 1885, the license for the Crown and Anchor was temporary endorsed to Mr Robert Samuel Norman Ipswich Journal, Jun 1885**
At the Beccles Petty Sessions held in July 1885 the license for the Crown and Anchor, Beccles, was transferred to Robert S Norman. Ipswich Journal, July 1885**
At the Beccles Petty Sessions held in August 1885, a license for the Crown and Anchor was granted to Alfred Williams, late of Paddington and Marsham…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
