android appBury St Edmunds Suffolk Hotel
listed building grade II
CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated Jan 16th, 2022.
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Bury St Edmunds Suffolk Hotel
also traded as le Greyhounde
West, 52.24505,0.71332
closed 1996
opened 16th century
35 to 38 Buttermarket
grid reference TL 853 642
It's shown (though not named) on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
A former Commercial & Family Hotel and posting house, the current building dates from 1833, when it was rebuilt and changed its name from the Greyhound to the Suffolk Hotel. The original Greyhound building dated back to at least the 16th century.
It is sometimes claimed that the nearby abbey owned the house as early as 1295 and although the precise date may be open to dispute, there is no gainsaying the fact that it was owned by the monks, for at the Dissolution in 1539 they surrendered the property to the Crown…
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Nutshell 0.03 mile
Corn Exchange bar 0.05 mile
King's Arms 0.09 mile
Vespers 0.10 mile
Masons' Arms 0.11 mile
Oakes Barn 0.11 mileHistorical interest
Originally called the Greyhound and housed in an earlier building dating back to about 1539.
The Greyhound in the Buttermarket in Bury St Edmunds is now kept by Mr Thomas Reynolds who lately kept the Three Tuns in the Old Town
(31 July edition confirmed previous occupier of the Greyhound as Mr William Adams).Ipswich Journal, 3 July 1742***
To be lett, the Greyhound Inn in Bury St Edmunds…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(1861 census information from Malcolm Fairley)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
(**** report reproduced with kind permission from Foxearth & District Local History Society)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
